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Sky scrapers rise from New York City in an aeriel shot — Triston Dunn/Unsplash New York City

Government

Is Mamdani’s win indicative of a new wave in national politics? Not likely says Cornell expert

11/5/2025 A&S Communications

New York City is too unique for Mamdani's victory to mean much for national politics, says professor of government Richard Bensel.

Jewish Studies Program

Alumni gift endows director position for Jewish Studies Program

11/5/2025 A&S Communications

The $5 million gift from Joseph Lubeck ’78 offers the Jewish Studies Program foundational support for the future.

Black and white image of a college student's face next to an image of a hand-written letter — Photo illustration by Ashley Osburn/Cornell University A student chronicled her life in the ’50s and ’60s—then shared those memories with her daughter and granddaughter

How hundreds of letters home connect a Cornellian family

11/4/2025 Cornellians

A student chronicled her life in the ’50s and ’60s—then shared those memories with her daughter and granddaughter – who's now an A&S alumna.

Three people sit in chairs in front of audience during a debate — Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Muna Ndulo, right, speaks as Chris Barrett, left, and moderator Paul Kaiser listen at the Einaudi Center’s Lund Critical Debate.

Government

Lund debate kicks off yearlong conversation on foreign aid

11/4/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Faculty members discussed the value of international aid in the wake of the Trump administration’s policy that froze foreign assistance.

American studies and history

Historian to explore state of American sports in 2025 Seymour Lecture

11/4/2025 A&S Communications

Author and historian Kevin Baker will examine the paradox at the heart of modern American sports: while there are more games and sports than ever before, access has become increasingly limited and costly.

historical black and white photo of about 10 lumber workers posing on a mechanized crane in the woods. They are standing on felled trees. — Watt Family Photographs/McNeese State University “Woods workers” posing with a large crane near Carson, Louisiana, 1920.

Africana studies

Redbones and racial nuance in Louisiana Lumber War

11/5/2025 A&S Communications

Klarman Fellow Kendall Artz wants to push beyond the assumption – one replicated by scholars – that company rosters and state records hold all there is to know about racial expression.

Physics

Nathan Seiberg explores frontiers of physics in 2025 Bethe Lecture

11/4/2025 A&S Communications

Seiberg, professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, will explore string theory and other aspects of scientific progress.

Society for the Humanities

Medical anthropologist to deliver annual Society for Humanities lecture

11/4/2025 A&S Communications

Stacey Langwick, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Arts & Sciences, will speak on "Healing in a Toxic World: Reimagining the Times and Spaces of the Therapeutic."

Two people work in a lab, looking up a a tube — Provided Bryce Brownfield, Ph.D. ’23 (left) and Cameron Kitzinger ’22 work in their lab for Forage Evolution, which was recently admitted into Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures incubator.

Physics

Startup bets their superfast microbe can rewrite biotech

11/3/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Researchers develop a new bacterium that can absorb DNA directly from its surroundings and incorporate it into its own genetic code.

Open hands holding change — Katt Yukawa/Unsplash

Psychology and philosophy

To disclose or not to disclose good deeds, that is the do-gooder dilemma_image

11/3/2025 Cornell Chronicle

People say they would feel worse telling others about their charitable acts than if they kept the news to themselves, or told others about their personal achievements, the study found.

Grey square topped by a silver arrow-shaped object — Sunwoo Lee/Provided A neural implant developed at Cornell rests on a grain of salt. About 300 microns long and 70 microns wide, it’s the smallest neural implant capable of wirelessly transmitting brain activity data.

Neurobiology and Behavior

Neural implant smaller than salt grain wirelessly tracks brain

11/3/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers and collaborators have developed a neural implant so small that it can rest on a grain of salt, yet it can wirelessly transmit brain activity data in a living animal for more than a year.

Hand holding a small American flag, a mail-in ballot — Janine Robinson/Unsplash

Politics

What this year’s off-cycle elections mean for the national mood

11/3/2025 A&S Communications

If Trump allies exceed expectations during Nov. 4 elections, despite his disapproval ratings, it will be a sign that Republicans can still benefit from Democrats’ continued unpopularity.

About 20 people pose as a group on a staircase. — Provided TIP executive board members

Language Resource Center

Symposium celebrates 25 years of bridging language barriers

11/3/2025 A&S Communications

“The Future of Language Advocacy” on Nov. 15 will feature Cornell Translator Interpreter Program founders Fatema Sumar ‘01 and alumna Joyce Muchan ‘97.

Provided Book cover: Within the Shop of the Divine

Poetry

Summoning religion, mythology and memory ‘Within the Shop of the Divine’

11/3/2025 A&S Communications

A Saint Anthony statue that glows in the dark lights the way into poems that connect people beyond death, visit holy sites, consider Satanic bargains and consult astrology.

Two people conversing on a stage during an event — Ryan Young/Cornell University Nobel Prize-winning economist and former Cornell professor Richard Thaler, left, speaks on stage with Thomas Gilovich, the Irene Becker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology, in the Statler Auditorium.

Psychology

Nobel laureate Richard Thaler delights in the human side of economics

10/31/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Richard Thaler, a Nobel laureate who was a professor at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management from 1978 to 1995, spoke Oct. 17 at the Alice Statler Auditorium.