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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.

Graduate student works

Censorship from the other side of the aisle: New book considers publishing trends

8/12/2025 A&S Communications

A book from Adam Szetela Ph.D. ’25 explores a new version of self-censorship in the publishing world.

Michael Garland Patterson

Lecturer
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Person wearing black-rimmed eyeglasses — Ashley Osburn/Cornell University Nirbhay Narang ’25

Alumni

Undergrad's startup lets you 'hear' through its eyeglasses

8/8/2025 Cornellians

The company makes a smart accessory that uses AI speech-to-text technology to project subtitles viewable only to the wearer.

Illustration of a free-standing microphone surrounded by yellow lines and a red circle — Ashley Osburn/Cornell University

Alumni

Tune in: Alumni-hosted podcasts offer something for everyone

8/8/2025 Cornellians

Your fellow Cornellians can keep you entertained and informed—with shows on topics from science to sports and beyond.

Abstract illustration featuring solar panels, smoke, water, and chart flows, primarily monochrome with yellow, blue, and red accents — Laura Chichisan

Broad Impact Feature

Cornell chemists tackle climate change

8/7/2025 A&S Communications

Innovative and far-reaching discoveries such as better electric batteries, carbon capture technologies, renewable plastics and improvements in solar cells are just a few of their research areas.

Mengyi Wang

Teaching Associate
Asian Studies

Two people holding a large, colorful basket between them — Provided Bowker with one of the basket-makers.

Alumni

Alum helps Kenyan villagers earn a living from their handcrafts

8/5/2025 Cornellians

Margaret Higgins Bowker ’68 runs a nonprofit that brings artisans’ work to the U.S.—and a student helped her expand sales online.

Thomas A. Lewis

Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education
German Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies Program

Students in front of Screen that says Cornell World Languages Day

Community Engagement

Engaged Opportunity Grants connect students with hands-on community projects

8/4/2025 Cornell Chronicle

The David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement awarded nine grants to a diverse array of projects that connect classroom learning with hands-on collaboration.

Sharif Hozoori

Visiting Lecturer
Government

Kennia Coronado

Postdoctoral Associate
Government, Latina/o Studies Program

Jonathan A. Kephart

Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Chemical Biology