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Sociology

Whose God goes on the classroom wall? Cornell expert on religious freedom

A&S Communications

Coordinated efforts across Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments "test whether American public schools belong equally to all families—or whether some families' faith gets privileged by law while others' gets diminished by the state.”

book cover: The Story in Fiction and Film of French Collaboration in the Occupation
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Literatures in English

How fiction and film are shaping the Occupation narrative in France

A&S Communications

In two new books, Daniel R. Schwarz considers France and the Holocaust – and how literature and film can correct erroneous depictions of history.

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Cornell University file photo Howard Howland
Neurobiology and Behavior

Professor emeritus Howard Howland, expert on eyes, dies at 92

Cornell Chronicle

Howard Howland, Ph.D. ’68, a neurophysiologist who studied the eyes of humans and animals, died Oct. 26 in Ithaca. He was 92.

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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.

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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.

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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

… produced by Salvant and featuring longtime collaborators 2026 Grammy nominee Sullivan Fortner, Yasushi Nakamura, and …

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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.

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Performing and media arts

A&S launches Cornell in Los Angeles semester study away

A&S Communications

… begin in spring 2027, with applications opening April 1, 2026. The program, spearheaded by the Department of … Feb. 2, 2026, 5 p.m., Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts Feb. 4, 2026, 5 p.m., Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
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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.