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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

The outdoor exhibit celebrates the centenary of Deskaheh Levi General’s 1923 intervention on behalf of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy at the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Book cover: Unfiltered Regard for China — Provided

History

Politics gets personal for China scholar

9/17/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Historian Peidong Sun began her new book “Unfiltered Regard for China: French Perspectives from Mao to Xi” amid profound personal upheaval: An exit ban from China and a move to France.

Molecular biology and genetics

Emr wins the World Laureate Association Prize

9/17/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Emr and collaborator Wesley Sundquist are recognized for their breakthrough discoveries in the cellular mechanisms of receptor membrane protein transport and degradation.

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

Tune in to the recent grads behind Sisters Who Watch—which covers everything from reality TV to the Super Bowl and beyond: A&S graduate Shelby Holland '18 and her sister Laura Holland ’22.

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

With support from Cornell Atkinson, graduate students mentored undergraduates to conduct summer research on methane mitigation, food security and climate forecasting.

Molecular biology and genetics

Surprising find reveals asymmetry in identical-looking fruit fly organs

9/16/2025 Cornell Chronicle

A new study provides an example of asymmetry, a pattern found throughout biology where a pair of organs or appendages that mirror each other have different proportions and may have different functions.

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

Nozomi Ando, professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Schmidt Polymath, part of a global cohort of eight scientists and engineers who will each receive up to $2.5 million over five years.

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

The Einaudi Center welcomes the Southwest Asia and North Africa Program and four new program directors this fall.

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

The federal government ended a program that has funded Cornell's Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program for decades.

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

A Cornell historian argues in a new paper that human historians are vital to capture the emotional and moral complexity behind world events.

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

The co-author of Forever Faithful reminisces about the star goalie as a player, a writer, a sports-safety activist, and a man.

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

A conversation with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution publisher, former Daily Sun editor, and past Distinguish Visiting Journalist in A&S, whose newspaper will soon be digital-only.

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

Cornell's 2025–26 Fulbrighters, including several A&S alumni and students, will conduct research, study and teach English in Canada, France, Honduras, India, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Norway and Taiwan. Most will be on site by October.

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

There’s no place like home — and even when state-by-state income tax disparities make it profitable to move, high-wage earners seem to agree, according to new Cornell-led research.

Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures

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

9/16/2025 A&S Communications

A Sept. 27 event taking inspiration from the foundations of the Harlem Renaissance will highlight collaboration, resource sharing and storytelling.