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Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Happy together: Peroxide binds incompatible polymers for recycling

Cornell Chronicle

“The dream is, if you can make a really rigid polymer that’s also really tough, then you can make packaging that uses less material, yet has the same sort of properties."

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Yao Yang and Madeline Degroodt Artist’s rendering of watching energy materials in action.
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Moving pictures: Researchers use movies to diagnose EV battery failure

Cornell Chronicle

The technique enables them to watch chemistry in action and collect real-time movies showing what happens to energy materials during temperature changes.

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Psychology

Brain-inspired AI model learns sensory data efficiently

A&S Communications

With brain mechanisms as a guide, Cornell researchers are designing low-energy robotic systems inspired by biology and useful for a wide range of potential applications.

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Psychology

Roper Center announces 2025 student fellows advancing public opinion research

Cornell Chronicle

This year’s cohort includes the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow and three Kohut Fellows. These emerging scholars will advance data-driven research by contributing original scholarly work that uses Roper iPoll’s extensive survey archive.

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Roger William Photography
Awards and Honors

Seventeen Receive Awards Recognizing Inclusive Excellence

Cornell University Graduate School

Awardees were recognized for the significant impacts they have made to advance access, engagement and belonging through their service and leadership.

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Awards and Honors

Physicist Brad Ramshaw awarded $2M as Brown Investigator

Cornell Chronicle

“This grant will allow us to pursue some high-risk, novel ideas for how to measure material properties like elasticity and high-frequency conductivity that have previously been inaccessible in 2D materials.”

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Diana Ayubi helps Khurshid Hussainy with some finishing touches before a cap-and-gown photo shoot.
Student life

They fled Afghanistan together – and now they're graduating

Cornellians

After escaping the Taliban, nine women matriculated on the Hill; the first to complete their degrees are in the Class of ’25

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Astronomy

Changemaker Award goes to SPIF and Zoe Learner Ponterio

A&S Communications

The Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways say Ponterio’s support “has been invaluable."

Héctor Abruña
Jason Koski/Cornell University Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Abruña receives 2025 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

The biennial prize, announced May 15, “recognizes an individual for exceptional and original research in a selected area of chemistry that has advanced the field in a major way.”

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Ryan Young/Cornell University Campus Community Leadership Award winner Netra Shetty ’25 (center-left) poses with (from left) Marla Love, the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students; Alec Brown, program manager of the Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholars Program; Monica Yant Kinney, interim vice president for university relations; Sarah Bartlett, volunteer and outreach manager at the Ithaca Free Clinic; and Taili Mugambee, lead program coordinator of Ultimate Reentry Opportunity, outside of Day Hall
Student honors

A&S senior honored for work that impacts the community

Cornell Chronicle

For her work supporting the Ithaca community and people struggling with incarceration and drug addiction across New York, Netra Shetty ’25 earned the 2025 University Relations Campus Community Leadership Award.

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Florian Wehde/Unsplash Berlin
Faculty awards

Two A&S professors awarded the Berlin Prize

A&S Communications

The highly competitive Berlin Prize is awarded annually to U.S.-based scholars, writers, composers and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields.

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Spring flowers blossom outside Goldwin Smith Hall.
Excellence in teaching and advising

Outstanding faculty win 2025 teaching and advising awards

A&S Communications

Among those being recognized for exceptional teaching and mentorship this year are faculty members Begüm Adalet, Claudia Verhoeven, and Marcelo Aguiar.

Graduating seniors in the A&S Class of 2025

Extraordinary Journeys: The Class of 2025

A&S Communications

The Class of 2025 leaves campus at a time of global uncertainty, but they say they feel prepared for the challenges that will come their way. In this feature, we celebrate their Cornell journeys.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Carbon dioxide key to making a precise polymer safely

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemists have developed a user-friendly, scalable process for methacrylate that’s precisely controlled and mediated by carbon dioxide.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

In a first, system uses sunlight to power carbon capture

Cornell Chronicle

Inspired by the mechanisms plants use to store carbon, researchers found that sunlight can power the capture and release of carbon dioxide, which could vastly lower costs and net emissions.