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Person standing in front of a body of water, balancing a hockey stick across her back and wearing a gold medal on a red ribbon
Jordan Leigh/Provided With her Olympic medal—and rings tattoo—at West Vancouver’s Horseshoe Bay.
Alumni

Olympic champion is a trailblazer in women’s pro ice hockey

Cornellians

A three-time captain for the Big Red, Micah Zandee-Hart ’19, BA ’20, now leads the New York Sirens of the PWHL

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Anne Byrne

Assistant Teaching Professor
Economics

Amorette Lyngwa
Provided
History

Student spotlight: Amorette Lyngwa

Cornell University Graduate School

Amorette Lyngwa, a doctoral student in history with a focus on modern South Asia from Shillong, India, studies the urban and social history of Shillong through a community-focused perspective.

people sitting around a table
Provided Prof. Alexander Livingston talks with Upward Bound students over winter break during a pilot of the new summer program for high school students.
Government

Cornell faculty and staff honored for community-engaged innovation

Cornell Chronicle

Fourteen members of Cornell’s faculty and staff are being recognized this year with Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement; from A&S it's government professor Alexandre Livingston.

Spring flowers bloom near Ho Plaza
Jason Koski/Cornell University Spring flowers bloom near Ho Plaza
Social sciences

Cornell Center for Social Sciences names 2026-27 Faculty Fellows

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Center for Social Sciences has selected 10 faculty members, including several from A&S, as 2026–27 Faculty Fellows, providing course release and funding to support interdisciplinary social science research with real-world impact.

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AI-generated image
AI in science

Experts to examine the use of generative AI in science

Cornell Chronicle

The Assessing and Imagining the Impact of Generative AI on Science Symposium, March 3-5, will feature experts from across academia and industry engaging in discussions on the use and implications of generative AI.

High school students smiling and looking at an old photo negative.
Jason Koski/Cornell University Students examine old strips of film.
Astronomy

Spacecraft image center brings the universe to NYS

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell’s Spacecraft Planetary Image Facility (SPIF), which manages print and online images taken by NASA missions, supports astronomy research and conducts dozens of outreach events every year.

Missile heading up into the sky
Photo by Maciej Ruminkiewicz on Unsplash
History

SM-6 missile strain raises strategic risks in wider conflict

A&S Communications

Iran’s retaliation to the intensifying war may be swift, but the longer-term risks lie in how prolonged fighting could strain U.S. defenses and tempt rivals like China.

Capitol building
Government

‘Little reason to expect any meaningful check’ on president despite some vocal opposition to strikes on Iran

A&S Communications

Presidents typically seek approval from Congress for prolonged military actions as an opportunity to convince the American public and cultivate buy-in from members, says professor David Bateman, but this administration couldn’t care less.

Person standing befor others, a computer open, looking confident
Chase Chappell/Unsplash
Government

Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

Cornell Chronicle

Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS” reveals.

Robert Sullivan, with short gray hair and a closed-mouth smile, leaning against a ship's rail with the sea and clouds behind him.
Provided Robert Sullivan on a Mediterranean cruise near Naples, Italy, in January 2024.
In memoriam

Planetary scientist Robert Sullivan dies at 63

Cornell Chronicle

Robert John Sullivan, Jr., one of the world’s foremost authorities on aeolian processes -- how wind can carve and change a landscape -- died Feb. 15 in Ithaca.

Field of semiconductors
Physics

Holding chaos at bay in the quantum world

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers have found that quantum systems in a frozen state can be stabilized long enough to be a useful strategy for preserving information before it disappears.

Students sit at tables, discussion together
Jason Koski/Cornell University As part of the new course, students broke out into small groups to discuss big questions relating to law, health, technology and business.
Government

Civic leadership class asks students to consider their purpose

Cornell Chronicle

On a Saturday morning in February – the coldest day yet of a cold winter – more than 350 students trekked to Statler Hall for an innovative new course on civics.

Aeriel view of a building complex; the center structure is pentagonal
Touch Of Light/Creative Commons license 4.0 The Pentagon, headquarters of the US Department of Defense
Government

Anthropic v. Pentagon reveals enduring rift between tech, national security

A&S Communications

“It’s striking that Anthropic appears caught off guard by how its model is being used," says government professor Sarah Kreps, director of Cornell’s Tech Policy Institute.
 

Book cover: Epistemic Impressions
Classics

Making an impression: A new approach to classical concepts of the image

A&S Communications

For the ancient Greeks, an image could be understood as a seal pressed on a material to leave a mark, as opposed to an inferior imitation (mimēsis), scholar Verity Platt argues in a new book.