Search : page 37

Stage with five pianos on it
Provided Historic instruments from the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards will take center stage during public concerts, lectures, roundtables and more during Forte | Piano 2025: Crafting Soundscapes.
Music

Festival celebrates pianos in history, history in pianos

A&S Communications

… makers will gather at Cornell Aug. 5-10 for Forte | Piano 2025: Crafting Soundscapes, a conference and festival … gather at Cornell University this summer for  Forte | Piano 2025: Crafting Soundscapes , a six-day conference and …

Image of Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit

Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit

Assistant Professor
Music

Book cover: Global Challenges to Democracy
Government

Cornell scholars address global democratic erosion in book

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell government scholars have been tracking democracy's erosion in various regions – including the United States.

Stephen Colbert
Montclair Film/Creative Commons license 2.0 Stephen Colbert
Media

Politics and punchlines: Cornell humor expert on ‘Colbert’ cancellation

A&S Communications

Political satire—long a staple of late-night TV—plays a critical role in democracy, cutting through partisanship and exposing hypocrisies that traditional news often can’t, says philosophy professor David Shoemaker.

Person reading a book in grass at the top of a hill
Sreang Hok/Cornell University Reading on Libe Slope
Alumni authors

Your July 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include a look at the world’s first advice column, self-help for parents, and a scholarly book on Venezuela.

illustration of a "wall" made of small dots – An illustration of a double-walled membrane formed by lipid and protein molecules.
Credit: bagus/Adobe Stock An illustration of a double-walled membrane formed by lipid and protein molecules.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

‘Breakthrough Science’ grant supports disease-targeting lipid research

Cornell Chronicle

A grant from the Ono Pharma Breakthrough Science Initiative, which supports bold new ideas in science, will help Cornell researchers study how chemical modifications to proteins play a powerful role in cell survival.

Peter John Loewen
Government and technology

Optimism about AI lowest in US, says A&S dean

Cornell Chronicle

Peter John Loewen shared takeaways from his decade-long AI research during a recent lecture.

Person in black Cornell t-shirt reaches gracefully to hit a small white ball with a paddle
Provided Gina Fu ’28, a statistics and economics major in the College of Arts and Sciences and vice president of the Cornell Table Tennis Club, competes at the College Table Tennis National Championships in April.
Student life

Student table tennis champ heads to World University Games

Cornell Chronicle

Statistics and economics major Gina Fu ’28 will represent Team Canada in international table tennis competition.

Kevin Gibson '10
Provided Kevin Gibson '10
Alumni

How practicing yoga has helped me regain my flow

Cornellians

A&S government alum Kevin Gibson '10 writes in a Chime In column that he was burned out from a career in law when trips to India and Sweden put him on the path to healing.

Migdalia Arcila-Valenzuela
Provided Migdalia Arcila-Valenzuela
Philosophy

Philosophy Ph.D. candidate wins Newcombe Fellowship

Cornell University Graduate School

Migdalia Arcila-Valenzuela is one of 20 recipients of Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for 2025-26, selected from nearly 600 applicants.

Image of Jeremy Schneider

Jeremy Schneider

Assistant Professor
History

People in red hard hats construct a structure on the floor of a large indoor space
Provided Cornell's Steel Bridge Project Team at the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)’s Student Steel Bridge Competition.
Physics

Partnership helps Cornell student team build a winning bridge

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell’s Student Machine Shop at the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP), students have access to industry-standard equipment and expert guidance: “We have users from physics, chemistry, architecture, engineering, physical education — you name it.”

Abstract image in blue and green with lines running in parallel
Michael Dziedzic/Unsplash
Physics

Cornell–IBM collaboration advances quantum computing

Cornell Chronicle

The researchers achieved two major breakthroughs, taking a step toward universal topological quantum computing (fault tolerant computing).

Microbe
Mathematics

For microbes in harsh environments, it’s survival of the meekest

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have found that peaceful microbes are more likely to thrive, and their more aggressive peers perish, if their environment is harsh or experiences violent disruptions.

Image of Leif Weatherby

Leif Weatherby


Society for the Humanities