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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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

10/6/2025 A&S Communications

The president of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation will present Abruña with the award in a 4 p.m. ceremony in the Meshri Family Auditorium, Baker Laboratory Room 200 and also livestreamed.

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

The Cornell Swift Club will ring in a new Taylor Swift era with a late-night album release party for “The Life of a Showgirl.”

Shelves of children's books — Jenny Kalahar/Unsplash

Sociology

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

10/2/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Liberals and conservatives both oppose censorship of children’s literature – unless the writing offends their own political ideology, showing how a once-bipartisan issue has become polarized.

artificial intelligence graphic with brain, lights and circuits

Government

NIH grant to fund autism research center

10/2/2025 Cornell Chronicle

AR² is one of 13 projects funded by the $50 million ADSI research effort to assess the roles of genetics, environmental interactions and other factors in autism.

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

After expanding to its peak size about 11 billion years from now, the universe will begin to contract – snapping back like a rubber band to a single point at the end, according to a Cornell physicist.

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

The team found a significant uptick in the number of articles published after 2013 that focused on core concepts and competencies suggested in a seminal report.

Alumni excellence

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

10/2/2025 A&S Communications

Thaler won the Nobel Prize in 2017 for work done in the 1980s at Cornell. He is now the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago.

Economics

Behavioral economics: Born at Cornell, embraced by policymakers

10/3/2025 A&S Communications

Economists and psychologists work together to understand how human behavior impacts people's decision-making in the marketplace.

Physics

‘Bottling’ human intuition for AI-led materials discovery

10/2/2025 Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell researcher and collaborators have developed a machine-learning model that encapsulates and quantifies the valuable intuition of human experts in the quest to discover new quantum materials.

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 Professor Robert Thorne's company just celebrated 20 years in business and its 25th patent.

Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Journalist offers master class on op-eds, narrative storytelling

9/30/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Journalist and biographer Sam Tanenhaus will share his writing expertise with the Cornell community in a master class, “Op-Eds and Narrative Storytelling, on Oct. 8 in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.

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

Wang was honored for “original and innovative work on insect flight that provided fundamental insights into unsteady aerodynamics, flight efficiency, flight stability, and neural control, and for opening new dimensions of research in biological fluid dynamics.”

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

The Center for Teaching Innovation will host “What Works,” on Oct. 1, featuring presentations, the Canvas Course Spotlight awardees, and a poster showcase that will demonstrate engaged learning approaches from Cornell faculty teaching in a diverse range of courses and fields.

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

The Moldovan people still have a very clear memory of what life was like as a Soviet republic, says professor Cristina Florea after the pro-EU party decisively won a parliamentary election there.

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

Journalist Sam Tanenhaus will share insights gained from 20 years of investigation in “The Man Who Built a Movement: How William F. Buckley Invented Modern Conservatism,” a conversation with A&S Dean Peter John Loewen, on Oct. 9.