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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Light-powered, reusable: Sustainable catalyst drives challenging reactions

8/13/2025 Cornell Chronicle

… to if we can make this process work well.” This study was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. Read the story …

Neurobiology and Behavior

Neurobiology professor named Pew Scholar

8/12/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, assistant professor and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a biomedical sciences grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Person sitting casually back to back with a statue of a seated human figure carved from black stone — Jason Koski/Cornell University Michael Fontaine, professor of classics in the College of Arts and Sciences, edited and translated “How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving In.”

Classics

Listen to the ancients: Don’t cave to peer pressure, improper requests

8/12/2025 Cornell Chronicle

“How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving In,” edited and translated by professor Michael Fontaine, brings together a pair of works by Plutarch and Prudentius that show how people can overcome pressures that encourage them to act against their own best interests.

Several people standing in rows between two red columns in front of a building — Provided Members of the project team that gathered at Astera Institute on June 24, 2025. Nozomi Ando is front row, second from the right; Stephen Meisburger is back row, third from the left.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Philanthropic support accelerates infrastructure for the future of structural biology

8/12/2025 A&S Communications

A new $5 million initiative, funded by the Astera Institute with experimental work conducted at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, aims to make diffuse scattering accessible to the public and the broader scientific community.