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Alumni authors

Your December 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include fiction from A&S alum Thomas Pynchon ’59, an award-winning poetry collection and a study of a small town.

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Kathy Hovis From left, Wilson Kan, Marian Caballo and Reya Babu are all graduating this December.
Student accomplishments

Celebrating the journey with our December A&S grads

A&S Communications

December graduates walk the stage this month, so we sat down for a talk with three A&S grads who’ve taken different pathways through Cornell.

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Neurobiology and Behavior

Brain stimulation during sleep boosts weak memories in mice

Cornell Chronicle

The mice could remember new experiences that would normally be forgotten – a finding with important implications for treating Alzheimer’s disease.

Three people stand next to a silver device, about a foot taller than the people, made of a post, a box with electronics inside, and a circular top
Alexandra Bayer/Cornell University Shami Chatterjee, associate professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences; James Cordes, the George Feldstein Professor of Astronomy; and doctoral student Sashabaw Niedbalski, on the roof of the Space Sciences Building next to the Global Radio Explorer Telescope.
Astronomy

Cake-pan telescope searches the sky for fast radio bursts

Cornell Chronicle

One of the world's smallest telescopes, it is part of a series of eight terminals installed around the globe.

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Student creative works

Undergrads launch magazine featuring in-depth stories

A&S Communications

A new student-run magazine focuses on long-form journalism that reflects the culture of Cornell and Ithaca.

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Provided Ellen Stekert '57 on the Hill for a return performance in 1960.
Alumni

At age 90, a singer, collector, and scholar of folk music goes digital

Cornellians

After a long career onstage and off, Ellen Stekert ’57 is focused on preservation—releasing songs from her vast archive on Bandcamp.

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SAM sokkolinmony/Unsplash Main gate of Presh Khan Kampong svay Temple in Cambodia's Presh Vihea Province, on the border with Thailand
Government

Domestic politics driving Thailand-Cambodia border tensions says Cornell Southeast Asia expert

A&S Communications

Thailand and Cambodia have long had fraught relations, professor Tom Pepinsky says after Thailand’s military launched air strikes along the Thailand-Cambodia border.

Book cover: Expanding Verse
Provided Book cover: Expanding Verse
Asian studies

Campana wins MLA’s Scaglione Prize for book on Japanese poetry

A&S Communications

“Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media" is study of work by poets who push the genre in unexpected directions.

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eCornell Frances Lee
Public engagement

Workshop, talk focused on applying lessons learned from COVID

A&S Communications

Scholars converged at Cornell to talk about lessons policymakers and elected officials could glean from their research into the COVID pandemic to help deal with the next public health emergency.

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China and Asia-Pacific Studies

Cornell-China trip celebrates 20 years of Levinson Program

A&S Communications

Leaders celebrated the Levinson Program and joined other Cornell delegates at the Cornell-China Forum.

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Physics

Electrons stay put in layers of mismatched ‘quantum Legos’

Cornell Chronicle

Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go – or don’t go – in certain layered materials.

Aerial view of the Arts Quad in the fall
Social sciences

Cornell Center for Social Sciences awards fall grants targeting $50M in external research support

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Center for Social Sciences offers multiple grants to help Cornell faculty maximize their research impact. These awards help seed ambitious projects and provide support to teams of faculty applying to major external funding and collaboration opportunities.

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Juan Pablo Ahumada/Unsplash Santiago, Chile
Government

Chile latest test case in South America’s far right shift

A&S Communications

“Chile's vibrant democracy faces a new challenge in a highly polarized second-round presidential election" Dec. 14, says Ken Roberts, professor of government.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Forever young? Extracellular vesicles may be key to halt aging

Cornell Chronicle

Scientists have outlined exactly how embryonic stem cells protect other cells from the effects of oxidative stress, thus preventing cellular aging.

About five students cluster around a table full of equipment in an introductory physics lab
Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University The "Improving STEM Learning and Pedagogical Assessment" innovation project focused on creating an equitable environment for students to work in teams.
Education innovation

CTI grants enable faculty to research how students think and learn

Cornell Chronicle

With a 2024-2025 Innovative Teaching & Learning Grant, A&S professors collaborated with others to develope an AI tool to foster student metacognitive skills around teamwork in STEM classes.