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Lots of students standing in a big space with bright lights overhead facing someone with a microphone. — Amanda Hatcher A crowd of students listens to alum Dan Cane '98 talk about the companies he's founded during an entrepreneurship kickoff event Sept. 4.

Economics

Entrepreneurial students flock to kickoff event

9/8/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Niko Tsavekou ’27, an economics major in the College of Arts & Sciences, won the pitch contest for Katha, a creatine-enhanced coconut water recovery drink he created with two friends.

Ken Dryden, in hockey uniform. — Cornell Athletics Ken Dryden ’69 was one of the greatest goalies in NHL history.

Alumni News

Hockey legend Ken Dryden ’69 dies at 78

9/8/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Ken Dryden ’69, the legendary Cornell men’s hockey goaltender who still holds the program record for career wins (76) and backstopped the Big Red to its first national championship in 1967, died of cancer Sept. 5.

Glass beakers on a table, one partially filled with liquid — Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

‘Three-tailed’ lipid helps cells survive during heart attack, stroke

9/9/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have uncovered the "three-tailed" fat molecule's surprising role in cellular survival: protecting against damage when oxygen runs out.

An orange-yellow sun with spheres of exoplanets silhouetted against it. — NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI) Provided The Earth-size exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e, depicted at the lower right, is silhouetted as it passes in front of its flaring host star in this artist’s concept of the TRAPPIST-1 system.

Astronomy

Is there water on an Earth-sized exoplanet? Study offers clues

9/8/2025 Cornell Chronicle

TRAPPIST-1 e may have an atmosphere that could support having liquid water on the planet’s surface in the form of a global ocean or icy surface, according to new research.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Chemist Song Lin named 2025 Blavatnik National Award finalist

9/9/2025 A&S Communications

Recognized for advancing electrochemical techniques that enable efficient, sustainable synthesis of complex organic molecules, accelerating drug development, and materials innovation, Lin is a finalist in Chemical Sciences.

Person holding a piece of paper and speaking into a microphone — Robert Barker/Cornell University file photo Martin Hatch in 2015

Music

Ethnomusicologist Martin Hatch, professor of music emeritus, dies at 83

9/8/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Martin F. Hatch Jr., Ph.D. ’80, professor of music emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Aug. 23 in Ithaca, New York. He was 83.

Sociology

Macron to blame for instability in French government, says Cornell scholar

9/8/2025 A&S Communications

The writing was on the wall for the no confidence vote says international populism expert Mabel Berezin.

Anthropology

Kidney disease and climate change in Nicaragua’s sugarcane zone

9/8/2025 A&S Communications

“What is happening to the kidneys of sugarcane workers is not a result of climate change. It is climate change": Anthropologist Alex Nading documents how environmental justice activists are addressing the epidemic.

Seen from the air: Pentagon-shaped building — Touch Of Light/CC BY-SA 4.0 The Pentagon, the Headquarters of the US Department of Defense

Government

DOD rebrand ‘risks being performative’ without subsequent structural changes

9/8/2025 A&S Communications

“The proposal to rename the Department of Defense back to the Department of War carries symbolic weight but raises questions about substance," says Sarah Kreps, government scholar and former active-duty officer in the U.S. Air Force.

Literatures in English

Animals are dashing, stampeding, gliding into contemporary fiction: Book explores how

9/8/2025 A&S Communications

Elisha Cohn's second book, “Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel,” also explores the methods authors are using to give animals a voice.

Six people in suits walk abreast up a red carpet, conversing — President of Russia//Creative Commons license 4.0 General Secretary Xi Jinping of the Chinese Communist Party and world leaders attending the 2025 China Victory Day Parade in Beijing.

History

China’s parade signals power shift, cold war parallels, says Cornell expert

9/5/2025 A&S Communications

The massive display of new military power by the Chinese this week served several purposes, says military historian David Silbey.

Five musicians hold folk instruments in a publicity portrait — Annie Diotte/Provided Le Vent du Nord

Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series

Le Vent du Nord plays Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series Sept. 20

9/5/2025 A&S Communications

… encompass a broader spectrum of the world's great music. In 2025, the Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing …

Person in a small boat on a river, turning around and smiling — Naia Andrade/Provided Ethan Duvall, an inaugural Semlitz Family Sustainability Fellow, co-founded a nonprofit in the Ecuadorian Amazon to strengthen green economic opportunities.

Ecology and evolutionary biology

Ph.D. student’s nonprofit seeks to protect Amazonian biodiversity and culture

9/5/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Ethan Duvall, an inaugural Semlitz Family Sustainability Fellow, has launched a nonprofit aimed at protecting biodiversity and culture in the Amazon Rainforest.

2025 New Faculty

The College welcomes new faculty for 2025-26

9/4/2025 A&S Communications

… here to explore profiles of our new faculty members for the 2025-26 academic year. … The College welcomes new faculty for 2025-26 …

Literatures in English

Jean Blackall, first woman tenured in English at Cornell, dies at 97

9/4/2025 Cornell Chronicle

… Department of English, in the College of Arts and Sciences, died July 15 in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 97. … Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program … Frantz Blackall , a Cornell faculty member from 1958-94, died July 15 in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 97. In 1971, …

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