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Physics

Physicist: After 33 billon years, universe ‘will end in a big crunch’

Cornell Chronicle

After expanding to its peak size about 11 billion years from now, the universe will begin to contract – snapping back like a rubber band to a single point at the end, according to a Cornell physicist.

professor and students in a classroom
University Photo Professor Michelle Smith, standing, works with students involved in an active learning project.
Innovation in the classroom

Faculty respond to request to share progressive teaching ideas, study shows

A&S Communications

The team found a significant uptick in the number of articles published after 2013 that focused on core concepts and competencies suggested in a seminal report.

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© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: A.Mahmoud. 2017
Economics and psychology

Nobel-winning behavioral economist Richard Thaler to speak Oct. 17

A&S Communications

Thaler won the Nobel Prize in 2017 for work done in the 1980s at Cornell. He is now the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago.

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Economics and psychology

Behavioral economics: Born at Cornell, embraced by policymakers

A&S Communications

Economists and psychologists work together to understand how human behavior impacts people's decision-making in the marketplace.

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Managing Director and General Counsel, Berkshire Partners LLC

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Physics

‘Bottling’ human intuition for AI-led materials discovery

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell researcher and collaborators have developed a machine-learning model that encapsulates and quantifies the valuable intuition of human experts in the quest to discover new quantum materials.

people watching someone do work
Kathy Hovis From left, Zakk Dannemann, a microfabricator at MiTeGen, works on a project, while talking with Benjamin Apker, MiTeGen’s chief executive officer, and company founder and Cornell physics professor Robert Thorne.
Faculty innovation

Creating customized tools for scientists around the world

A&S Communications

Physics Professor Robert Thorne's company just celebrated 20 years in business and its 25th patent.

Sam Tanenhaus
Michael N. Pressman
Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Journalist offers master class on op-eds, narrative storytelling

Cornell Chronicle

Journalist and biographer Sam Tanenhaus will share his writing expertise with the Cornell community in a master class, “Op-Eds and Narrative Storytelling, on Oct. 8 in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.

Jane Wang's face, with short dark hair and a smile.
Physics

Wang receives 2025 Stanley Corrsin Award from American Physical Society

Cornell Engineering Magazine

Wang was honored for “original and innovative work on insect flight that provided fundamental insights into unsteady aerodynamics, flight efficiency, flight stability, and neural control, and for opening new dimensions of research in biological fluid dynamics.”

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Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University Students in Rhonda Gilmore's studio course present their plans of a redesigned Cornell classroom. Gilmore will present this project as an example of engaged learning at "What Works" on Oct. 1.
Engaged learning

Celebrating “What Works” in creating engaging learning experiences

Cornell Chronicle

The Center for Teaching Innovation will host “What Works,” on Oct. 1, featuring presentations, the Canvas Course Spotlight awardees, and a poster showcase that will demonstrate engaged learning approaches from Cornell faculty teaching in a diverse range of courses and fields.

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Sasha Pleshco/ Unsplash Chișinău, Moldova
History

Moldovans showed “clarity about what is at stake” in pro-EU party vote

A&S Communications

The Moldovan people still have a very clear memory of what life was like as a Soviet republic, says professor Cristina Florea after the pro-EU party decisively won a parliamentary election there.

Historic photo of two men in suits at a desk, conferring: Richard Nixon and William F. Buckley
Levan Ramishvili/Public Domain William F. Buckley (right) with then-President Richard Nixon at the White House in 1969.
Distinguished Visiting Journalist

William F. Buckley’s secrets revealed in Oct. 9 talk

Cornell Chronicle

Journalist Sam Tanenhaus will share insights gained from 20 years of investigation in “The Man Who Built a Movement: How William F. Buckley Invented Modern Conservatism,” a conversation with A&S Dean Peter John Loewen, on Oct. 9.

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Ryan Young/Cornell University Nobel-winning economist Claudia Goldin '67 delivered the 2025 George Staller Lecture to a packed audience in Rockefeller Hall’s Schwartz Auditorium on Sept. 25.
Economics

Nobel winner says US women won on rights, but benefits lag

Cornell Chronicle

Claudia Goldin '67 used data to paint a picture of the "tremendous" progress of the U.S. women’s movement, as well as the forces that have prevented women from reaping the benefits of their rights.

A stage bathed in green light: several people play on keyboard instruments, including standing sythesizers, pianos, and an organ
Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Keyboard Energies concert, spring 2025
Music

‘The Keyboards Strike Back’: concert sequel set for Oct. 9

A&S Communications

Cornell faculty and graduate students unleash a genre-bending program across seventeen keyboard instruments, from the delicate whisper of the clavichord to the analog punch of the Roland Juno-60.

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Alumni authors

Your September 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include the latest by a National Book Award winner and a classical history of Jewish resistance to Rome.