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Cy Cyr/Golf Channel Mullins competing at the World Long Drive Championship in 2016
Alumni

Power play: Arts & Sciences alum is a long drive golfing champ

Cornellians

After competing in track and field for the Big Red, Troy Mullins ’09 parlayed her athleticism into success at smashing the ball.

Karola Meszaros
Mathematics

Mészáros elected to American Mathematical Society

A&S Communications

Mészáros’ research focuses on algebraic and geometric combinatorics.

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MD Mujahedul Islam

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Government

Illustration showing RNA Polymerase II interacting with Chromatin
Provided This cartoon illustrates how RNA polymerase generates torsional stress in DNA during transcription. Chromatin, composed of nucleosomes with DNA wrapped around histone proteins, buffers this stress, enabling the polymerase to transcribe through nucleosomes.
Physics

Unexpected allies: DNA packaging aids gene expression

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers discovered that DNA packaging structures called nucleosomes, which have been traditionally seen as roadblocks for gene expression, actually help reduce torsional stress in DNA strands and facilitate genetic information decoding.

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Ryan Young/Cornell University HelioSkin is a lightweight, stretchable architectural fabric that is aesthetically attractive and can wrap around complex shapes.
Cornell University

2025 Year in Review

Cornell Chronicle

In 2025, Cornell produced cutting-edge AI research, inaugurated a president and advanced agriculture and sustainability. The university’s faculty, staff, students and alumni made the world a better place, welcomed back two Nobel laureate alumni and conducted research that matters.

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Physics

AI gives scientists a boost, but at the cost of too many mediocre papers

Cornell Chronicle

A new study shows that using large language models like ChatGPT boosts paper production, especially for non-native English speakers, but the overall increase in AI-written papers is making it harder to separate the valuable contributions from the AI slop.

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Government

TikTok user long-term experience will ‘depend’ on regulators in new framework

A&S Communications

Tiktok has signed a deal to spin off its U.S. business, but it remains unclear how effectively the new framework will address the initial national security threat concerns, says government professor Sarah Kreps.

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History

In Bukovina, European empires built new worlds out of inherited materials

Cornell Chronicle

The region never fit easily among its neighbors, as regimes including the Habsburg Empire and the Soviet Union tried to remake it in their image.

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Cedille Records/Photo by Elliot Mandel Record album cover: Songs in Flight
History

‘Songs In Flight,’ inspired by Cornell-based project, earns Grammy nod

A&S Communications

Based on poems by A&S alumna Tsitsi Ella Jaji, M.A. ’06, Ph.D. ’08, the songs by Shawn Okpebholo bring to life individual stories preserved by the Cornell-based Freedom on the Move project.

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RephiLe water/Unsplash Cornell chemists have found a way to encapsulate a molecule’s quantum mechanical information so they can feed that – rather than simpler structural information – into ML algorithms, providing up to 100 times more accuracy than the current most popular method
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Quantum mechanical molecular ‘fingerprints’ solve machine learning mystery

A&S Communications

The new method can predict molecular properties with up to 100 times more accuracy than the current method.

Book cover: Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic
Anthropology

Book explores ‘modernity and malevolence’ in Indian clinical care

Cornell Chronicle

The book shows how patterns of psycho-social stress combined with modernity’s pressures can influence psychiatric practice.

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David Parker/Science Photo Library Arecibo Observatory
Astronomy

Astronomer paints vivid history of Arecibo Observatory

Cornell Chronicle

In a new book, Donald Campbell, Ph.D. ’71, professor emeritus of astronomy, recounts the history of Arecibo from construction to its last days under Cornell’s management in 2011.

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Chris Kitchen for Cornell University Researchers said enclosed fields, just off Cornell's campus, vastly expand the experiences of lab mice, which have only ever lived in a cage a little larger than a shoebox.
Neurobiology and Behavior

In lab mice rehomed to fields, anxiety is reversed

Cornell Chronicle

When postdoctoral researcher Matthew Zipple releases lab mice into a large, enclosed field just off Cornell’s campus, something remarkable happens.

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Jason Koski/Cornell University A team of scientists from Cornell, the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation took a DEC boat out onto Seneca Lake in September to place sensors and take water samples from the lake's depths.
Ecology and evolutionary biology

The mystery of the Seneca Drums persists

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers are plumbing the depths of the largest and deepest of New York’s Finger Lakes to explain the source of its famous booming sounds.

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Joel Muniz/Unsplash Gratitude helps you live up to your best self and be a better member of society.
Psychology

From better sleep to stronger communities: The benefits of gratitude

A&S Communications

Gratitude not only makes you feel good, but it helps you live up to your best self and be a better member of society, psychology professor Thomas Gilovich has found.