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Two people sit at a table loaded with equipment, assembling a robot
Paul Treadwell/Cornell University Surabhi Bacchav '27 (l) and Thomas Jacobsen, University of Idaho, set up a up an AgXRP robot in summer 2025.
Engaged learning

Cornell showcases a decade of impact through new community-engaged learning video series

Cornell Chronicle

The David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement has released a new video series highlighting a decade of progress and impact in community-engaged learning across the university.

Flags of east Asia on poles near a body of water. Blue sky behind them
FutureAtlas.com/Creative Commons license 2.0 Flags of east Asia
International politics

Relationship between China and Japan ‘on a knife’s edge,’ says Cornell expert

A&S Communications

Japan’s refusal to retract remarks about military intervention if China moved to seize Taiwan has left relations between the two countries the worst they've been in a decade, says Allen Carlson, associate professor of government.

Man with checkered shirt standing in front of a screen with a multi-colored quilt of neurons
Diane Tessaglia-Hymes H. Sebastian Seung, professor of computer science and neuroscience at Princeton, showing a portion of the fruit fly connectome in the optic lobe as a featured speaker at the 2025 Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium.
Neurobiology & Behavior

Neurotech symposium explores how brain circuits drive behavior

Cornell Chronicle

The event was an example of Cornell’s interdisciplinary commitment to advancing the frontiers of neurotechnology.

Person in a red dress, singing into a microphone
Nada Žgank Cécile McLorin Salvant at the 2025 Ljubljana Jazz Festival
Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series

Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant featured on Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series

A&S Communications

Salvant, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award winner, is an artist celebrated for bringing historical depth, dramatic flair, and exceptional musical insight to jazz standards and original works.

people having a conversation
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Government

New course encourages students to embrace disagreement

A&S Communications

A new course being offered will give students the chance to consider some of the most polarizing issues in our world today.

Huge sign that says "Hollywood" on a Los Angeles hillside
Photo by Nathan DeFiesta on Unsplash
Performing and media arts

A&S launches Cornell in Los Angeles semester study away

A&S Communications

The program will place students in Hollywood for a semester of coursework, networking, and cultural immersion.

Light source sends white rays across a dark space
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Physics

Light causes atomic layers to do the twist

Cornell Chronicle

Using a Cornell-built instrument and Cornell-built high-speed detector, a team of researchers captured atomically thin materials responding to light with a dynamic twisting motion.

Person sitting on a bench, reading, surrounded by fall leaves on a college campus
Jason Koski/Cornell University Cornell's Arts Quad
Economics

Universities’ role in society goes beyond education, research

Cornell Chronicle

Americans broadly agree that universities should engage in a range of societal issues beyond their core education and research missions.

Person wearing a cap, sweater, wool hiking pants and sturdy boots, poses on rocky ground of a very steep hill
Mary Reppy John Reppy above Barrowdale in the English Lake District
Physics

Physicist John Reppy wins Buckley Prize

A&S Communications

Reppy was recognized along with David Bishop, Ph.D. ’78, for "groundbreaking experiments" they did on helium 50 years ago.

Illustration of a planet covered in orange-tinted clouds
Adam B. Langeveld/Carl Sagan Institute. Adapted from NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech Artist concept of a cloudy Earth-like exoplanet with colorful biota in the clouds.
Astronomy

How to spot life in the clouds on other worlds

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have created the first reflectance spectra – a color-coded key – of microorganisms that live in the clouds floating above Earth’s surface.

Book cover: Island of Hermaphrodites
Provided Book cover: Island of Hermaphrodites
Romance studies

Translation offers English readers passage to satirical ‘Island of Hermaphrodites’

A&S Communications

The novel, published anonymously in 1605, is "a very funny critique of court life that resonates for anyone dealing with very hierarchical institutions in which the exercise of power is often inscrutable and seemingly random,” says professor Kathleen Perry Long.

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Eric Koch/Anefo, Creative Commons license 3.0 President Suharto of Indonesia arrives in the Netherlands for a state visit with Queen Juliana
Government

‘National hero’ honor for Suharto speaks to enduring authoritarian influence in Indonesia

A&S Communications

President Prabowo’s decision to confer the title underscores how Suharto’s legacy continues to shape Indonesian politics today, says a Cornell government professor who studies political and economic systems in Southeast Asia.

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Geoffrey Coates
Awards and Honors

Chemist Geoffrey Coates wins Benjamin Franklin Medal

A&S Communications

Coates is being recognized “for transformative work at the interface of chemical catalyst design and polymer science.”

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Ambre Dromgoole

Assistant Professor
Africana Studies and Research Center, American Studies Program, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Music, Religious Studies Program

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Psychology

Right or left, low-quality news links popular on social media

Cornell Chronicle

The spread of dubious headlines on social media isn’t just a right-wing thing – it's a social media thing, according to new research from psychology professor David Rand ’04.