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Philosophy

Philosophy Ph.D. candidate wins Newcombe Fellowship

7/16/2025 Cornell University Graduate School

Migdalia Arcila-Valenzuela is one of 20 recipients of Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for 2025-26, selected from nearly 600 applicants.

People in red hard hats construct a structure on the floor of a large indoor space — Provided Cornell's Steel Bridge Project Team at the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)’s Student Steel Bridge Competition.

Physics

Partnership helps Cornell student team build a winning bridge

7/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell’s Student Machine Shop at the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP), students have access to industry-standard equipment and expert guidance: “We have users from physics, chemistry, architecture, engineering, physical education — you name it.”

Abstract image in blue and green with lines running in parallel — Michael Dziedzic/Unsplash

Physics

Cornell–IBM collaboration advances quantum computing

7/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

The researchers achieved two major breakthroughs, taking a step towards universal topological quantum computing (fault tolerant computing).

Mathematics

For microbes in harsh environments, it’s survival of the meekest

7/14/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have found that peaceful microbes are more likely to thrive, and their more aggressive peers perish, if their environment is harsh or experiences violent disruptions.

Man with glasses and t-shirt working on complex electronic table-top machine — Orion Smedley Lead author Thow Min Jerald Cham, M.S. ’21, Ph.D. ’24 at work in the laboratory.

Quantum research

Physicists take step toward a holy grail for electron spins

7/10/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Their breakthroughs came in part by interweaving two fields: 2D materials and spintronics, also known as spin electronics.

A curved stone building with a row of colums on the facade — Carol M. Highsmith Columns on the Internal Revenue Service Building, part of the Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C

Sociology

Pulpit politics? Cornell expert questions IRS filing

7/9/2025 A&S Communications

Prof. Landon Schnabel comments on the new IRS filing regarding political endorsements by religious institutions.

A white haired man and a woman in bright red shirt and sweater stand leaning against a cow with a painting of a cow on it, with a barn in the back and sunflowers and grass on its legs. — Provided Jerry Elbaum ’61, JD ’64 with wife Judith Brody Elbaum ’62.

Alumni News

Udderly Delightful: Meet the Alum Behind ‘CowParade’

7/8/2025 Cornellians

Jerry Elbaum ’61, JD ’64, founded the organization that mounts bovine-themed public art shows in cities around the globe

Older man with glasses and gray hair talking with his hands. — Jake Cornelius lvaro Soto, director of the Chilean National Center for AI (CENAI), was one of some 40 leading AI scholars and researchers at “Thought Summit: LLMs and Society” held May 19-21 at Cornell University’s Ithaca campus.

Linguistics

‘Summit’ on LLMs rallies leading AI experts

7/7/2025 Cornell Bowers CIS

Linguist Marten van Schijndel co-led a session on “Responsible LLMs & Issues” at the summit.

A pile of hand-made scrapbooks — Joe Wilensky/Cornellians Cornell scrapbooks created by students in the First American University, a one-credit American Studies course

Alumni

Ticket stubs & COVID tests: 2020s Big Red life, in scrapbooks

7/3/2025 Cornellians

As a final project, a popular course on Cornell history lets students create miniature time capsules for future generations.

person at a desk with computers, looking thoughtful — Ryan Young/Cornell University Semiconductors are at the core of the economy and national security. Their importance makes them a target. Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, discusses how Cornell is helping to keep the semiconductor supply chain safe.

Cornell Matters

From halting cancer to protecting soldiers, Big Red research is at risk

7/2/2025 Cornellians

A look at some projects imperiled by federal funding cuts — and how you can support your alma mater through "Cornell Matters."

Round formation (a cell), luminescent against a dark background — Kai Dahms/Unsplash

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Natural sensors help in mapping out cells’ own biology

7/2/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemistry and chemical biology researchers have found a new and potentially more accurate way to see what proteins are doing inside living cells — using the cells’ own components as built-in sensors.

Temple of Zeus party for Zeus manager, Lydia Dutton; Pictured left to right: A.R. Ammons, Cecil Giscombe, Lydia Dutton, David Burak, Phyllis Janowitz, James McConkey, and Tony Caputi — A party in the Temple of Zeus for retiring Zeus manager, Lydia Dutton. Left to right: A.R. Ammons, Cecil Giscombe, Dutton, David Burak, Phyllis Janowitz, James McConkey and Tony Caputi.

A&S broad impacts

Throughout history, poets find inspiration at Cornell

7/1/2025 A&S Communications

Visit the Poetry Foundation website, type in “Cornell,” and you’ll find 405 results.

Person wearing red sits for a portait, backed by an image of a galaxy — Carnegie Institution for Science Archives Rubin in a 1980s-era portrait

Astronomy

Alumna’s namesake observatory takes a deep dive into the cosmos

6/27/2025 Cornellians

The facility, which honors astronomer Vera Cooper Rubin, MS ’51, has released its first images—and they’re mind-blowing

Faculty excellence

A&S honors 13 faculty with endowed professorships

6/27/2025 A&S Communications

The professorships are made possible because of gifts from alumni, parents and friends.

Book cover: The Greater Second World War

History

Global perspectives reframe timeline and scope of WWII

6/25/2025 Cornell Chronicle

This summer marks the 80th anniversary of the “official” end of World War II, but a new book co-edited by Ruth Lawlor, assistant professor of history, extends the war’s timeline back to 1931 and into the mid-1950s.