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Alumni excellence

Cornell composer’s work featured in upcoming Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series event

10/16/2025 A&S Communications

A new work by Cornell alum Zachary Wadsworth DMA ’12, will premiere this weekend in three concerts, including one at Cornell’s Bailey Hall.

person with screen behind — Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak, Ph.D. ’77, delivers the 2025 Ef Racker Lecture. Ryan Young/Cornell University

Alumni accomplishments

Nobel laureate shares research exploring the origins of life

10/15/2025 A&S Communications

Jack Szostak, Ph.D. ’77, shared decades of research into one of biology’s most puzzling mysteries – the origins of life – during the 2025 Ef Racker Lecture.

Person wearing PPE holding two small, colorful birds — Chris Kitchen Zhilei Zhao and parrots

Neurobiology and Behavior

Zhao wins Simons Foundation Fellows-to-Faculty award

10/16/2025 A&S Communications

A former Klarman Fellow in neurobiology and behavior in the College of Arts & Sciences (A&S), Zhao is continuing his research into the neural mechanisms of parrot vocalizations in the Goldberg lab with this support.

Three spheres near each other, light between — Trophim Laptev/Unsplash

Physics

Using AI to learn quantum complexity

10/15/2025 A&S Communications

Cornell physicists and computer scientists have developed a machine learning architecture inspired by the large language models (LLMs) behind ChatGPT to help them study the vastly complicated interactions that happen when nature's smallest particles interact.

Government

Gaza ceasefire shouldn’t be considered a “peace deal”

10/15/2025 A&S Communications

Uriel Abulof, a visiting professor in Cornell University’s government department, calls it “a survival pact for leaders who thrive on conflict and enmity."

Neurobiology and Behavior

Neuroscientist Azahara Oliva receives Packard Fellowship

10/15/2025 A&S Communications

The unrestricted fellowship funds enables Oliva and the 19 other fellows named this year to “test novel ideas and lead research that drives real-world impact,”

Ryan Young/Cornell University Claudia Goldin '67

Economics

Nobelist explores women’s role in the workplace—and lives it

10/14/2025 Cornellians

Economist and Harvard professor Claudia Goldin ’67 studied under eminent Big Red faculty members Alfred Kahn and Walter LaFeber

City under a sky with clouds — Brent Ninaber/Unsplash Antananarivo, Madagascar

International politics

African Union must condemn Madagascar coup, says Cornell expert

10/14/2025 A&S Communications

Olúfémi Táíwò, professor of Africana studies at Cornell University, said the move is another coup d’etat that Madagascar, and the African continent, does not need.

Microphone up close — Kane Reinholdtsen/Unsplash

International politics

Hot-mic moment with President window into ‘transactional foreign policy’

10/14/2025 A&S Communications

Trump has turned U.S. foreign policy into a tool for petty corruption and insider deal-making instead of supporting U.S. national interests, says a Cornell government faculty member.

Person in black jump suit poses in front of a crowd of excited children — Provided Heather Alexander during a school visit

Alumni

Prolific children’s author offers some halloween-season chills

10/14/2025 Cornellians

The latest book from Heather Alexander ’89 is Haunted USA, which compiles spooky tales from all 50 states.

Physics

Fuchs, Hartman elected to American Physical Society

10/14/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Thomas Hartman, professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, is one of two Cornell faculty members elected this year as fellows of the American Physical Society (APS).

Two people sitting in arm chairs, conversing in front of an audience — Kate Blackwood/College of Arts and Sciences Tanenhaus conversing with Dean Peter John Loewen during “The Man Who Built a Movement: How William F. Buckley Invented Modern Conservativism" on Oct. 9

Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Master storyteller shares secrets

10/14/2025 A&S Communications

During a week on campus, author and editor Sam Tanenhaus, told stories every step of the way and reminded his listeners that politically complex and even morally ambiguous material makes for great storytelling.

Event poster featuring the face of a scary person, in blue — Provided

Cornell Cinema

The Phantom of the Opera: Live score by Invincible Czars

10/14/2025 A&S Communications

This October, Cornell Cinema will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the silent movie “The Phantom of the Opera,” with live musical accompaniment by The Invincible Czars.

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

In a new paper, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow Davide Napoli argues that public speeches in ancient Greece aimed not to express personal views, but to undermine entrenched ideas and challenge common-sense conclusions.

In Memoriam

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

10/13/2025 A&S Communications

Professor Debra Castillo, Stephen H. Weiss presidential fellow and Emerson Hinchliff professor of Hispanic Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences, died Oct. 5 at the age of 72.