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Music

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra to perform with violinist James Ehnes Oct. 26

10/13/2025 A&S Communications

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In Memoriam

Remembering Prof. Debra Castillo, champion of Latinx students, community

10/13/2025 A&S Communications

Comparative Literature …

Ancient stone building near modern buildings in Athens, Greece — David Fucsku/Unsplash The ancient Agora of Athens, Greece

Government

Public speeches challenged assumptions in ancient Greece

10/13/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Classics …

An artist's rendition of an atom in the sky next to McGraw Tower on Cornell's campus.

Physics

Brad Ramshaw named Experimental Physics Investigator

10/9/2025 Cornell Chronicle

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Economics

Gold surge does not pose a threat to the US dollar

10/9/2025 A&S Communications

Economics …

mosque spire rises in fog over a war-damaged street — Tomer Texler/Unsplash

History

Gaza ceasefire is a resounding policy victory for Trump

10/9/2025 A&S Communications

History …

two black holes approach each other with a dark background of space — SXS Lensing/Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Collaboration A visualization from a computer simulation of two black holes

Astrophysics

Cornell physicists update catalog of binary black holes

10/8/2025 A&S Communications

Astronomy …

Comparative literature

Writers, translators consider ‘Ukraine in Translation’ Oct. 18

10/7/2025 A&S Communications

Comparative Literature …

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Héctor Abruña to be honored at Dreyfus Prize ceremony Oct. 23

10/6/2025 A&S Communications

Chemistry and Chemical Biology …

Economics and psychology

Behavioral economics: Born at Cornell, embraced by policymakers

10/3/2025 A&S Communications

Economics …

professor and students in a classroom — University Photo Professor Michelle Smith, standing, works with students involved in an active learning project.

Innovation in the classroom

Faculty respond to request to share progressive teaching ideas, study shows

10/2/2025 A&S Communications

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology …

Colorful clouds and stars in deep space — Arnaud Mariat/Unsplash

Physics

Physicist: After 33 billon years, universe ‘will end in a big crunch’

10/2/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Physics …

Physics

‘Bottling’ human intuition for AI-led materials discovery

10/2/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Physics …

Two people chatting outdoors — Devin Flores/Cornell University Swift Club Vice President Agustina Garcia ’27 (right) and Taylor Swift fan Leyla Rivera '27 prepare for the club's "The Life of a Showgirl" album release party starting at 10 p.m. Oct. 2 in Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.

Student life

Cornell ‘Swifties’ bond over musical superstar

10/2/2025 Cornell Chronicle

American Studies Program …

Shelves of children's books — Jenny Kalahar/Unsplash

Sociology

Political views, not sex and violence, now drive literary censorship

10/2/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Sociology …

artificial intelligence graphic with brain, lights and circuits

Research centers

NIH grant to fund autism research center

10/2/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Government …

Economics and psychology

Nobel-winning behavioral economist Richard Thaler to speak Oct. 17

10/2/2025 A&S Communications

Economics …

people watching someone do work — Kathy Hovis From left, Zakk Dannemann, a microfabricator at MiTeGen, works on a project, while talking with Benjamin Apker, MiTeGen’s chief executive officer, and company founder and Cornell physics professor Robert Thorne.

Faculty innovation

Creating customized tools for scientists around the world

10/1/2025 A&S Communications

Physics …

Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Journalist offers master class on op-eds, narrative storytelling

9/30/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Journalist and biographer Sam Tanenhaus is a master storyteller, expert in forms of writing ranging from newspaper reporting to op-eds to biographies. On Oct. 8, he’ll share his expertise with the Cornell community in a master class, “Op-Eds and Narrative …

People giving a presentation with a poster — Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University Students in Rhonda Gilmore's studio course present their plans of a redesigned Cornell classroom. Gilmore will present this project as an example of engaged learning at "What Works" on Oct. 1.

Engaged learning

Celebrating “What Works” in creating engaging learning experiences

9/30/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Jewish Studies Program …

Jane Wang's face, with short dark hair and a smile.

Physics

Wang receives 2025 Stanley Corrsin Award from American Physical Society

9/30/2025 Cornell Engineering Magazine

Physics …

Historic photo of two men in suits at a desk, conferring: Richard Nixon and William F. Buckley — Levan Ramishvili/Public Domain William F. Buckley (right) with then-President Richard Nixon at the White House in 1969.

Distinguished Visiting Journalist

William F. Buckley’s secrets revealed in Oct. 9 talk

9/29/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Government …

Blue sky, stone spire with a cross on top, people holding red, yellow and blue flags — Sasha Pleshco/ Unsplash Chișinău, Moldova

History

Moldovans showed “clarity about what is at stake” in pro-EU party vote

9/29/2025 A&S Communications

History …

A stage bathed in green light: several people play on keyboard instruments, including standing sythesizers, pianos, and an organ — Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Keyboard Energies concert, spring 2025

Music

‘The Keyboards Strike Back’: concert sequel set for Oct. 9

9/29/2025 A&S Communications

Music …

Person speaking in front of an audience in a packed auditorium — Ryan Young/Cornell University Nobel-winning economist Claudia Goldin '67 delivered the 2025 George Staller Lecture to a packed audience in Rockefeller Hall’s Schwartz Auditorium on Sept. 25.

Economics

Nobel winner says US women won on rights, but benefits lag

9/29/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Economics …

Alumni

Alum spotlight: Ibrahim Gemeah, Ph.D. ’23

9/26/2025 Cornell University Graduate School

Near Eastern Studies …

Autumn orange tree with a person lying under it, reading — Lindsay France/Cornell University

Alumni authors

Your September 2025 reads

9/26/2025 Cornellians

Classics …

Two people stand with a colorful mural between them — Jason Koski/Cornell University Monti Wilkins, left, director of Morrison Hall, and Jesse Wright, an artist and Ithaca High School teacher, talk after a section of tableaux dedicated to Toni Morrison was installed in Morrison Hall. Hanging near an image of Morrison, this painting on wood panels features Ithaca High senior London Smith, whose blue sunglasses reference Morrison’s novel, “The Bluest Eye.”

Community engagement

Teens’ portraits celebrate Toni Morrison as community-builder

9/25/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Literatures in English …

Sun beams shoot through heavy clouds over a bay — Adrian Diaz-Sieckel/ Unsplash

Religion

#RaptureTok and the history of end-times beliefs: Cornell religion expert

9/25/2025 A&S Communications

Near Eastern Studies …

Molecular biology and genetics

Nobel-winning biochemist to speak on the origins of life

9/25/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Molecular Biology and Genetics …

Two people sit at a desk on the set of a late night TV chat show — Pete Souza/White House Jimmy Kimmel Live! video taping in 2015

Philosophy

Satire under siege: Cornell humor expert on ‘Kimmel’ comeback

9/25/2025 A&S Communications

Philosophy …

Public policy

Brooks and A&S partner on new option for public policy major

9/25/2025 A&S Communications

The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and the College of Arts and Sciences are collaborating to launch a new option for bachelor of arts students admitted through A&S to major in public policy. The initiative follows the long-standing, …

Freedom and Free Societies

Talk explores medicine and social justice activism Oct. 6

9/24/2025 A&S Communications

Classics …

Literary scholarship

Culler receives 2026 Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award

9/24/2025 A&S Communications

Comparative Literature …

Person holding a newborn — Hollie Santos/Unsplash

Psychology

Safety first: Babies heighten adults’ perception of threats

9/23/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Psychology …

Physics

Revitalizing introductory physics labs with NSF support

9/23/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Physics …

Members of an orchestra playing on a stage — Casey Martin Cornell Symphony Orchestra

Live performance

Music Oct. 2-5: Homecoming concerts and historical keyboards

9/22/2025 A&S Communications

Music …

Nine people standing in a grassy area — Provided The 2025 Postdoc Achievement Award recipients, left to right: Heather Kim, Jennifer Grauer, Adam Beard, Shawna Cook, Inbal Ravreby, Bryan MacNeill, Lucinda Li, Bailey Flynn, and Bec (Rebecca) Schmitt.

Postgraduate awards

Nine postdocs honored with achievement awards

9/19/2025 Cornell University Graduate School

Psychology …

Stylized image featuring a photograph of a person wearing a beaded sash and a headpiece made of leaves — Provided Deskaheh

History of Art and Visual Studies

‘Defending Haudenosaunee Sovereignty’ exhibit opens Sept. 24

9/18/2025 A&S Communications

History of Art and Visual Studies …

Book cover: Unfiltered Regard for China — Provided

History

Politics gets personal for China scholar

9/17/2025 Cornell Chronicle

History …

Two people wearing headphones and recording equipment under a neon sign: Pitch your podcast here — Provided Laura and Shelby Holland at an iHeartRadio pitch event

Alumni

Siblings turn their love for dishing on media into a podcast

9/17/2025 Cornellians

History …

Molecular biology and genetics

Emr wins the World Laureate Association Prize

9/17/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Molecular Biology and Genetics …

Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures

Inaugural “Freedom Party” in downtown Ithaca centers on community connection

9/16/2025 A&S Communications

Africana Studies and Research Center …

Two people leading out of windows in a wooden building — Provided As part of her Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Phoebe Dailey Wagner, M.P.S. ’24, visited Niraj Bahugunaji, whose family has lived in their home near the temple grounds of Lakha Mandal in India for more than 300 years.

Research at Risk

Research at risk: Cultural fluency and critical language expertise

9/16/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Government …

Colored rugs make a collage under a blue sky — Provided

International studies

Einaudi welcomes SWANA Program

9/16/2025 Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Anthropology …

Molecular biology and genetics

Surprising find reveals asymmetry in identical-looking fruit fly organs

9/16/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Molecular Biology and Genetics …

Three people in farm work boots together under palm trees — Provided With support from Cornell Atkinson, students conducted fieldwork at an experimental cattle ranch in Florida, studying how plant structures influence methane transport and how deep soil layers affect methane production.

Biology

Student summer research lays path for future scientists

9/16/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology …

Person posing in a lab — Buzz Barstow Nozomi Ando

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Nozomi Ando named to Schmidt Polymaths cohort

9/16/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Chemistry and Chemical Biology …

Person wearing a black vest and white shirt, speaking publically — Courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Morse at a ribbon-cutting event for the publication’s new offices in downtown Atlanta.

Distinguished Visiting Journalist

'I love print, but I love journalism even more': Meet Andrew Morse '96

9/15/2025 Cornellians

Government …

Two people laughing together — Lindsay France/Cornell University Dryden (right) and Bradley at their talk, “Lives on the Run: Sports, Service, and Leadership.”

Alumni

'Thoughtful, gracious and humble': Remembering Ken Dryden '69

9/15/2025 Cornellians

History …

Houses in a neighborhood, seen from above — Clark Ma/Unsplash

Sociology

Sense of place trumps tax breaks in choosing where to live

9/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Sociology …

Grassy hill with a road leading up it: Scene from Taiwan — Sam Chang/Unsplash A road in Taiwan

Alumni

18 Cornellians receive Fulbright awards

9/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

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hundreds of black and white portrait photos on a wall leading up to a light grey dome — Eelco Böhtlingk/Unsplash Memorial at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Israel. December 2018

Jewish Studies Program

Holocaust testimony is AI litmus test, and it fails

9/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Jewish Studies Program …

The Nobel Prize as a Gold medal on black background

Events

Three Nobel Laureates to speak on campus this semester

9/12/2025 A&S Communications

Economics …

Tall display case in a museum room that's full of light — Adam T. Smith/Provided Open through Dec. 31, 'Sacred Ground' highlights findings from a four-year archaeological excavation of Ithaca’s St. James A.M.E. Zion Church conducted by Cornell faculty, students and Ithaca school children from 2021–2024.

Ithaca community engagement

‘Sacred Ground’ exhibit receives Historic Ithaca preservation award

9/11/2025 A&S Communications

Anthropology …

People standing in front of a big brick building with three levels of pagoda-style roofs — binaya_photography on Unsplash Patan Durbar Square, Lalitpur, Nepal

Anthropology

Nepal expert comments on violent protests in Nepal

9/10/2025 A&S Communications

Anthropology …

A field of stars surrounding one circular and one oblong area of extreme blackness surrounded by a halo of light — SXS Lensing/Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Collaboration. A visualization from a computer simulation of two black holes similar to those of GW250124.

Physics

On 10th anniversary, LIGO verifies Hawking’s theorem

9/10/2025 A&S Communications

Astronomy …

Clément Morin/© Nobel Prize Outreach Claudia Goldin '67

Economics

Nobel-winning economist to speak on ‘why women won’

9/10/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Economics …

Book cover: Rural Versus Urban — Provided

Government

How rural vs urban polarization can be repaired

9/10/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Center for the Study of Inequality …

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Chemist Song Lin named 2025 Blavatnik National Award finalist

9/9/2025 A&S Communications

Chemistry and Chemical Biology …

Glass beakers on a table, one partially filled with liquid — Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

‘Three-tailed’ lipid helps cells survive during heart attack, stroke

9/9/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Chemistry and Chemical Biology …

Flag with broad red stripe on top and broad white tripe on bottom on flagpole against a blue sky. — Photo by Mufid Majnun on Unsplash Flag of Indonesia

Government

Cornell expert: Indonesia’s Prabowo ignoring ‘needs of the people’ in cabinet shake-up

9/9/2025 A&S Communications

Government …

Literatures in English

Animals are dashing, stampeding, gliding into contemporary fiction: Book explores how

9/8/2025 A&S Communications

Literatures in English …

Seen from the air: Pentagon-shaped building — Touch Of Light/CC BY-SA 4.0 The Pentagon, the Headquarters of the US Department of Defense

Government

DOD rebrand ‘risks being performative’ without subsequent structural changes

9/8/2025 A&S Communications

Government …

Anthropology

Kidney disease and climate change in Nicaragua’s sugarcane zone

9/8/2025 A&S Communications

Anthropology …

Sociology

Macron to blame for instability in French government, says Cornell scholar

9/8/2025 A&S Communications

Sociology …

Person holding a piece of paper and speaking into a microphone — Robert Barker/Cornell University file photo Martin Hatch in 2015

Music

Ethnomusicologist Martin Hatch, professor of music emeritus, dies at 83

9/8/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Music …

An orange-yellow sun with spheres of exoplanets silhouetted against it. — NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI) Provided The Earth-size exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e, depicted at the lower right, is silhouetted as it passes in front of its flaring host star in this artist’s concept of the TRAPPIST-1 system.

Astronomy

Is there water on an Earth-sized exoplanet? Study offers clues

9/8/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Astronomy …

Ken Dryden, in hockey uniform. — Cornell Athletics Ken Dryden ’69 was one of the greatest goalies in NHL history.

Alumni News

Hockey legend Ken Dryden ’69 dies at 78

9/8/2025 Cornell Chronicle

History …

Lots of students standing in a big space with bright lights overhead facing someone with a microphone. — Amanda Hatcher A crowd of students listens to alum Dan Cane '98 talk about the companies he's founded during an entrepreneurship kickoff event Sept. 4.

Economics

Entrepreneurial students flock to kickoff event

9/8/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Economics …

Person in a small boat on a river, turning around and smiling — Naia Andrade/Provided Ethan Duvall, an inaugural Semlitz Family Sustainability Fellow, co-founded a nonprofit in the Ecuadorian Amazon to strengthen green economic opportunities.

Ecology and evolutionary biology

Ph.D. student’s nonprofit seeks to protect Amazonian biodiversity and culture

9/5/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology …

Five musicians hold folk instruments in a publicity portrait — Annie Diotte/Provided Le Vent du Nord

Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series

Le Vent du Nord plays Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series Sept. 20

9/5/2025 A&S Communications

Music …

Six people in suits walk abreast up a red carpet, conversing — President of Russia//Creative Commons license 4.0 General Secretary Xi Jinping of the Chinese Communist Party and world leaders attending the 2025 China Victory Day Parade in Beijing.

History

China’s parade signals power shift, cold war parallels, says Cornell expert

9/5/2025 A&S Communications

History …

2025 New Faculty

The College welcomes new faculty for 2025-26

9/4/2025 A&S Communications

This year, 27 new faculty have joined the College of Arts & Sciences, enriching 17 departments and programs with their excellence in an impressive range of topics, including moral psychology, gravitational waves, Black contemporary art and more. Click …