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Geoffrey Coates

Awards and Honors

Chemist Geoffrey Coates wins Benjamin Franklin Medal

11/11/2025 A&S Communications

… the nation’s oldest awards, during a ceremony on April 30, 2026. Coates, the Tisch University Professor in the … achievement through its annual awards for 202 years. “The 2026 laureates embody the same remarkable spirit of …

Ambre Dromgoole

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

phone with dark mode screen and social media icons — Berke Citak/Unsplash

Psychology

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

11/7/2025 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.

books in a library with computers on table — Photo by Gunnar Ridderström on Unsplash

Digital humanities

Combining humanities and tech for research gains

11/7/2025 A&S Communications

An interdisciplinary project is sparking collaborations among those interested in digital approaches to the study of history, languages and culture.

Future of the American University

Building university cultures of open inquiry: Nov. 18 talk

11/7/2025 A&S Communications

John Tomasi, the inaugural president of Heterodox Academy, will speak on “The University at a Crossroads – and How We Can Build Cultures of Open Inquiry” as part of a series of events organized by the Provost’s Committee on the Future of the American University.

Event poster in bright purple, pink and orange hues: Louise Farrence at 150 — Provided

Music

Commemorating composer, pianist, pedagogue Louise Farrenc Nov. 14-15

11/6/2025 A&S Communications

The two-day event features performances of Farrenc’s chamber music on historical instruments, a reimagining of the salon culture in collaboration with the Johnson Museum of Art, and scholarly presentations.

Sky scrapers rise from New York City in an aeriel shot — Triston Dunn/Unsplash New York City

Government

Is Mamdani’s win indicative of a new wave in national politics? Not likely says Cornell expert

11/5/2025 A&S Communications

New York City is too unique for Mamdani's victory to mean much for national politics, says professor of government Richard Bensel.

Jewish Studies Program

Alumni gift endows director position for Jewish Studies Program

11/5/2025 A&S Communications

… students and Professor Ross Brann during a recent campus visit, where they spoke about Lubeck's grandfather, Morris … research and travel funding for graduate students, a visiting speaker series and the opportunity for students to …

Black and white image of a college student's face next to an image of a hand-written letter — Photo illustration by Ashley Osburn/Cornell University A student chronicled her life in the ’50s and ’60s—then shared those memories with her daughter and granddaughter

How hundreds of letters home connect a Cornellian family

11/4/2025 Cornellians

A student chronicled her life in the ’50s and ’60s—then shared those memories with her daughter and granddaughter – who's now an A&S alumna.

Three people sit in chairs in front of audience during a debate — Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Muna Ndulo, right, speaks as Chris Barrett, left, and moderator Paul Kaiser listen at the Einaudi Center’s Lund Critical Debate.

Government

Lund debate kicks off yearlong conversation on foreign aid

11/4/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Faculty members discussed the value of international aid in the wake of the Trump administration’s policy that froze foreign assistance.

American studies and history

Historian to explore state of American sports in 2025 Seymour Lecture

11/4/2025 A&S Communications

Author and historian Kevin Baker will examine the paradox at the heart of modern American sports: while there are more games and sports than ever before, access has become increasingly limited and costly.

David Rand

Professor, Professor of Marketing and Management Communications, S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, and Professor of Information Science, A.S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
Psychology

historical black and white photo of about 10 lumber workers posing on a mechanized crane in the woods. They are standing on felled trees. — Watt Family Photographs/McNeese State University “Woods workers” posing with a large crane near Carson, Louisiana, 1920.

Africana studies

Redbones and racial nuance in Louisiana Lumber War

11/5/2025 A&S Communications

Klarman Fellow Kendall Artz wants to push beyond the assumption – one replicated by scholars – that company rosters and state records hold all there is to know about racial expression.

Physics

Nathan Seiberg explores frontiers of physics in 2025 Bethe Lecture

11/4/2025 A&S Communications

Seiberg, professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, will explore string theory and other aspects of scientific progress.

Society for the Humanities

Medical anthropologist to deliver annual Society for Humanities lecture

11/4/2025 A&S Communications

… teaching-research hospital in Tanzania, which is used as a site of medical training, together with the hospital’s …