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Colin Gordon

Visiting Lecturer
Music

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Michael Nave

Visiting Lecturer
Music

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Reading on Libe Slope
Alumni

Your August 2025 Reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include the latest from a top mystery writer, a Marvel omnibus, and a look at challenges to democracy – many by A&S faculty and alumni.

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Sean Linfors

Visiting Lecturer
Music

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Cibele Moura

Visiting Lecturer
Music

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Lindsay France/Cornell University The Flaming Lips play Barton in 2010
Alumni

From Springsteen to the Stones: Your Big Red concert memories

Cornellians

We asked you to recall the musicians you saw on the Hill—and like a great rock show, your responses blew our minds

Book cover: The Mountain Embodied
Anthropology

Mountains embodied: understanding head shaping in ancient Andes

Cornell Chronicle

Matthew Velasco argues that the reduction of head shape to a marker of ethnic identity has been a colonial invention.

Klarman Hall

Nilanjan Das

Visiting Associate Professor
Philosophy

Klarman Hall

Nilanjan Das

Visiting Associate Professor
Philosophy

Lisa Kaltenegger
Ryan Young/Cornell University Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute, in the Space Sciences Building.
Astronomy

Carl Sagan Medal awarded to astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger

Cornell Chronicle

The award recognizes and honors outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the public.

Margaret Rossiter
Jason Koski/Cornell University Margaret Rossiter, the Marie Underhill Noll Emerita Professor of the History of Science in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Science and Technology Studies

Margaret Rossiter, historian of women in science, dies at 81

Cornell Chronicle

Margaret Rossiter, the Marie Underhill Noll Emerita Professor of the History of Science in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and known worldwide for her studies of the history of women in science, died Aug. 3. She was 81.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Creating safe medicinal molecules with sustainable electrochemistry

A&S Communications

Song Lin and collaborators use electrochemistry to selectively synthesize chiral compounds – important in pharmaceuticals.

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Amanda Mole

Visiting Lecturer and Interim University Organist 
Music

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Rare and Manuscript Collections George Moler 1875 (at far right) and other faculty with the dynamo during Sibley College’s 60th anniversary in 1931.
Alumni

How Cornell became home to the world’s first outdoor electric lights

Cornellians

In the 19th century, a pioneering ‘dynamo’ not only lit up the campus—it sparked advances in engineering research on the Hill

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Light-powered, reusable: Sustainable catalyst drives challenging reactions

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemistry researchers have designed a light-powered, reusable catalyst that’s pre-charged by electricity and capable of driving challenging reactions, with applications including drug development and environmental clean-up.