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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

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.

Song Lin
Jason Koski/Cornell University Song Lin, associate professor of chemistry
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Chemist Song Lin named 2025 Blavatnik National Award finalist

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.

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Robert Barker/Cornell University file photo Martin Hatch in 2015
Music

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

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.

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Sociology

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

A&S Communications

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

Book cover: The Kidney and the Cane
Anthropology

Kidney disease and climate change in Nicaragua’s sugarcane zone

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

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.

Elisha Cohn
Literatures in English

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

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

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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 

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A leading force in Quebec’s progressive francophone folk movement, Le Vent du Nord will perform in the first Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series (DMCCS) on Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall.

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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

Cornell Chronicle

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

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2025 New Faculty

The College welcomes new faculty for 2025-26

A&S Communications

This year, 27 new faculty have joined the College of Arts & Sciences, enriching 17 departments and programs.

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Literatures in English

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

Cornell Chronicle

Jean Frantz Blackall, a Cornell faculty member from 1958-94 who in 1971 became the first woman to receive tenure in what was then the Department of English, in the College of Arts and Sciences, died July 15 in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 97.

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Provided Toni Morrison M.A. '55
Legendary alumni

Four-day event celebrates 70 years of Toni Morrison’s Cornell legacy

Cornell Chronicle

A four-day event featuring films, panels, workshops, the unveiling of a mural and other activities will celebrate the 70th anniversary of her degree, life and work. “Toni Morrison: Literature and Public Life” will take place Sept. 18-21.

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Physics

Self-assembling magnetic microparticles mimic biological error correction

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led collaboration developed microscale magnetic particles that can mimic the ability of biomolecules to self-assemble into complex structures, while also reducing the parasitic waste that would otherwise clog up production.

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A. D. White Professors at Large

Dual-campus visit highlights A.D. White Professors-at-Large lineup

Cornell Chronicle

Best-selling writer and technology blogger Cory Doctorow will make the A.D. White Professor-at-Large program’s second dual-campus visit, ending his week at Cornell Tech in New York City. Four other professors will visit Cornell this fall.