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underside of a tadpole, in great detail
Jackson Phillips/Provided The Pacific tailed frog tadpole is lungless and sucker mouthed and is found in the Pacific Northwest in clear, cold mountain streams where they cling to rocks.
Ecology and evolutionary biology

Once tadpoles lose lungs, they never get them back

Cornell Chronicle

Tadpole species that lost their lungs through evolution never re-evolve them, even when environmental change would make it advantageous.

poster with devils riding on horseback
Philosophical debate

Which discipline should survive the end of the world?

A&S Communications

Five professors from across campus will advocate that their discipline is the most important to save for the future in the annual Apocalypse Debate Nov. 6.

Judd Kessler
Provided Judd Kessler
Economics

Hidden markets unveiled in talk by Wharton economist Nov. 4

A&S Communications

Wharton economist Judd Kessler will pull back the curtain on the hidden markets that determine who gets what in everyday life.

People reading on benches that overlook a grand view of a lake and autumnal trees
Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Reading on Libe Slope
Alumni

Your October 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include short stories, a fantasy book for tweens, and a scholarly look at Carmen adaptations – all by Arts & Sciences alumni and faculty.

Sanae Takaichi
Cabinet Public Relations Office, Cabinet Secretariat/Creative Commons license 4.0 Sanae Takaichi, 2025
History

Election of Japan’s first female PM isn’t a win for women, says Cornell historian

A&S Communications

Sanae Takaichi’s election may seem surprising in a country that ranked lowest among OECD nations in women’s political representation as recently as 2023, but it is not a victory for gender equality, says professor Kristin Roebuck.

three people; two in lab coats, looking at the third, who is pointing instructively
Devin Flores/Cornell University Quantera founder Terry Bates, Ph.D. ’23, explains the operation of the startup's spectrometer to undergraduate interns Nick DeMayo ’26 and Alexis Sherman ’26, both from Cornell Engineering.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

New Cornell startup targets faster, cheaper greener testing

Cornell Chronicle

Newly admitted into the Praxis Center business incubator, Quantera aims to improve scientific sample collection.

Lumpy, tawny, textured surface with one smooth bead embedded in it
Kelly Presutti/Provided Ferrous agglomeration with porcelain shards and a French trading bead, 1788–2003. Musée Maritime de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, LAP.030.52
History of Art and Visual Studies

Objects from famous shipwreck tell deeper stories

A&S Communications

La Pérouse’s expedition, wrecked in 1788, was intended to rival those of British explorer Captain James Cook and to bring the French renown in scientific knowledge. Through the visual materials related to the voyage and its wreck, Kelly Presutti tells a larger story about the enterprise of empire.

cells, appearing as brightly colored dots against a black background
National Cancer Institute/Unsplash
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Cornell team finds new way to cut cancer’s lipid lifeline

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers have uncovered molecules that can preserve crucial cellular processes while blocking malignant proteins, indicating a new approach to fighting cancer.

capitol dome with virusy colors
Government

Event considers political lessons learned from COVID

A&S Communications

A Nov. 13 event sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences will feature reflections on the political and social context and consequences of the Covid epidemic.

small boat traveling over open water
Jorge Salvador/Unsplash A small boat off the coast of Venezuela
Government

U.S. returning to ‘familiar pattern’ of interventionism in Latin America

A&S Communications

Trump's move to cut aid to Columbia and enact tariffs is the latest in a string of escalating tensions between the U.S. and countries in Latin America, says Cornell government professor Ken Roberts.

Three people sitting in arm chairs during an on-stage event
Jason Koski/Cornell University At a 2018 panel discussion, “Celebrating 150 Years of Ezra Cornell’s Promise.”
Alumni

Alum and former Law School dean named president of Georgetown

Cornellians

An A&S College Scholar who clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court, Eduardo Peñalver ’94 currently leads Seattle University.

Aleesha George
Graduate student research

Student spotlight: Aleesha George

Cornell University Graduate School

Aleesha George, a doctoral candidate in chemistry and chemical biology, studies the optical and electronic properties of organic and hybrid materials under the guidance of Andrew Musser at Cornell.

Figure eight-like shape
Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse An example of an invariant measure for a simplified mathematical model of atmospheric convection known as the Lorenz-63 system, using the researchers’ method of time-delayed snapshots.
Mathematics

Cracking the code of chaos

A&S Communications

Using time-delay snapshots, researchers led by mathematician Yunan Yang have introduced a new way to identify the underlying dynamics of unpredictable systems, such as the atmosphere and turbulent fluids.

Person standing at a small podium, smiling
Cornell University file photo Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo, M.F.A. ’10, speaks at Cornell in 2012.
Creative Writing Program

Bulawayo wins 25th anniversary Best of Caine prize

Cornell Chronicle

NoViolet Bulawayo, M.F.A. ’10, assistant professor in A&S, has won the Best of Caine Award as judges have chosen her short story, “Hitting Budapest,” as the best to have won the Caine Prize for African Writing in the award’s 25 years.

person smiling
Jason S. Lee Wadsworth
Alumni excellence

Cornell composer’s work featured in upcoming Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series event

A&S Communications

A new work by Cornell alum Zachary Wadsworth DMA ’12, will premiere this weekend in three concerts, including one at Cornell’s Bailey Hall.