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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.

A sign sticks out from a crowd of people, saying "the Earth is flat) — Kajetan Sumila/Unsplash

Psychology

Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe

6/24/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Overconfidence is a hallmark trait of people who believe in conspiracies, Cornell psychology researchers have found.

Government

Iranian nuclear project may be more dangerous now than ever

6/24/2025 A&S Communications

Professor of government Uriel Abulof: “In the aftermath of recent regional escalations, there’s a growing risk of repeating a familiar—and dangerous—pattern: ceasefire, self-congratulation, and strategic blindness

Faculty honors

Colanzi wins Zinklar Award for short fiction

6/24/2025 A&S Communications

Liliana Colanzi’s award is the first Zinklar Prize to honor Spanish language fiction.

Person sitting on grass, reading a book propped on knees — Sreang Hok/Cornell University Summer reading on the Arts Quad

Alumni

Your June 2025 reads

6/23/2025 Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include the latest from A&S faculty Ishion Hutchinson and Charlie Green, plus A&A alumni Chris Pavone '89 and Sarah Spain '02.

White plate, broken in half on a wood floor — Elanchezhian Narayanasamy/Unsplash

Psychology

Emotion – not just action – helps brain define, divide events

6/20/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Study participants who watched scenes from popular movies showed emotion plays a larger role than previously understood in establishing event boundaries that help structure attention and memory.

Book cover: Child of Light — Provided In "Child of Light," an experimental historical fiction set in 1890s Utica, Jesi Bender-Buell '07 tells the story of a young girl as she tries to understand her world through the interests of her parents: Spiritualism for Mama, electrical engineering for Papa.

Alumni

Why experimental art is more important than ever

6/20/2025 Cornellians

When we focus on making our work marketable, it’s no longer the creative endeavor that our society so desperately needs, alumna Jesi Bender-Buell '07 writes in a Chime In column.

Bright green sprout in dark soil — Daniel Dan/Unsplash

Research support

SPROUT Awards cultivate early-stage engineering research

6/20/2025 Cornell Chronicle

From designing a reversible male contraceptive to detecting life on distant ocean worlds, the latest Cornell Engineering SPROUT Awards are cultivating breakthroughs across medicine, space exploration, robotics and environmental sensing.

Computer screen showing images of three newspaper ads from a long time ago — Devin Flores/Cornell University Enslavers posted as many as a quarter-million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves. Ed Baptist is leading the public crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move, that has digitized tens of thousands of these advertisements in an open-source site accessible to the public.

History

Research at risk: Records of enslaved people seeking freedom

6/17/2025 Cornell Chronicle

A research project collecting records of freedom-seeking enslaved people in the pre-Civil War U.S. came to a halt in early May.

A telescope in space: topped by a circular yellow mirror, the object is boat-shaped, with a background of stars — Northrup Grumman An illustration of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope

Astronomy

Cornell astronomers win time on James Webb Space Telescope

6/17/2025 A&S Communications

“It’s the cutting edge of what we can achieve, with better precisions and resolutions than other instruments.”

two people standing in front of a statue — Kathy Hovis Mehler, left, and Rosenberg, right

Alumni experiences

Reunion 2025: The view from five years out

6/17/2025 A&S Communications

Members of the Class of 2020 remember their journeys at Cornell.

Basketball going through a net — Markus Spiske/Unsplash

Physics

Better basketball through theoretical physics?

6/16/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers are applying a theory about the movement of electrons to a much taller, human system – the National Basketball Association.

Alumni

Why our attempts to avoid emotional discomfort often backfire

6/13/2025 Cornellians

"As a clinical psychologist, I’ve learned that moments of anxiety can be golden opportunities to learn to tolerate distress," A&S psychology major Alissa Worly Jerud ’08 writes.

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