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Provided Changemaker Award
Astronomy

Changemaker Award goes to SPIF and Zoe Learner Ponterio

A&S Communications

The Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways say Ponterio’s support “has been invaluable."

Héctor Abruña
Jason Koski/Cornell University Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Abruña receives 2025 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

… will take place at Cornell later this year. In March 2026, the national meeting of the American Chemical Society …

Six people standing side-by-side
Ryan Young/Cornell University Campus Community Leadership Award winner Netra Shetty ’25 (center-left) poses with (from left) Marla Love, the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students; Alec Brown, program manager of the Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholars Program; Monica Yant Kinney, interim vice president for university relations; Sarah Bartlett, volunteer and outreach manager at the Ithaca Free Clinic; and Taili Mugambee, lead program coordinator of Ultimate Reentry Opportunity, outside of Day Hall
Student honors

A&S senior honored for work that impacts the community

Cornell Chronicle

For her work supporting the Ithaca community and people struggling with incarceration and drug addiction across New York, Netra Shetty ’25 earned the 2025 University Relations Campus Community Leadership Award.

View of a city (Berlin) from above: river and red-roofed buildings
Florian Wehde/Unsplash Berlin
Faculty awards

Two A&S professors awarded the Berlin Prize

A&S Communications

The highly competitive Berlin Prize is awarded annually to U.S.-based scholars, writers, composers and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields.

Pink flowering tree and a stone colonade with people on the steps
Jason Koski/Cornell University Spring flowers blossom outside Goldwin Smith Hall.
Excellence in teaching and advising

Outstanding faculty win 2025 teaching and advising awards

A&S Communications

… Bobbi Josephine Hernandez Distinguished Teaching Prize , first awarded in 2018, honors faculty members for excellence …

Graduating seniors in the A&S Class of 2025

Extraordinary Journeys: The Class of 2025

A&S Communications

The Class of 2025 leaves campus at a time of global uncertainty, but they say they feel prepared for the challenges that will come their way. In this feature, we celebrate their Cornell journeys.

Clear glass chemistry beakers
Hans Reniers/Unsplash
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Carbon dioxide key to making a precise polymer safely

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemists have developed a user-friendly, scalable process for methacrylate that’s precisely controlled and mediated by carbon dioxide.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

In a first, system uses sunlight to power carbon capture

Cornell Chronicle

Inspired by the mechanisms plants use to store carbon, researchers found that sunlight can power the capture and release of carbon dioxide, which could vastly lower costs and net emissions.

Doctor's stethoscope and blood pressure cuff
Immo Wegmann/Unsplash
Psychology

Surgeon General nominee is a prescription for ‘pseudoscience’

A&S Communications

The nomination of Dr. Casey Means is the latest example of the administration’s disregard for scientific expertise and evidence-based policy, says a Cornell University expert.
 

Cornell undergraduate students diagnosing wine grape diseases in a plant pathology laboratory in Chile.
Cornell undergraduate students diagnosing wine grape diseases in a plant pathology laboratory in Chile in 2018.
Physics

Cornell STEM education expert weighs in on NSF funding cuts

A&S Communications

"Students across the country are going to miss out on innovative improvements to their science education – innovations that would have critically prepared them for the competitive 21st century technological workforce."

Antibiotic resistant bacteria in film.
Molecular biology and genetics

New method explores dormancy in TB, other organisms

Cornell Chronicle

A new computational method developed by researchers at Cornell sheds light on how going dormant – sometimes for multiple generations – has affected the evolution of the tuberculosis bacterium and other organisms that can temporarily drop out of the gene pool.

Kaushik Basu wearing a tweed jacket with hand upraised as he delivers a talk.
Cornell University File Photo Kaushik Basu at a 2016 Chats in the Stacks talk about his book “An Economist in the Real World.”
Economics

Economist Kaushik Basu named co-chair of UN panel

A&S Communications

The “High-Level Expert Group” will develop recommendations for measures that complement or go beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

People in religious robes on a balcony
Creative Commons license 4.0 Pope Leo XIV waves at the people gathered in St. Peter's Square in his first public appearance as pope.
Sociology

Pope Leo XIV bridges Catholicism's geographic divide

A&S Communications

The historic selection of Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago-born U.S. citizen and naturalized Peruvian, reflects Catholicism's evolving global identity.

two people talking
Simon Wheeler Milstein student Oscar Wang, left, explains his project to another student at the Milstein Expo.
Student research

Milstein students show off projects at expo

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

The showcase reflected the Milstein Program’s mission, helping students in the College of Arts & Sciences pursue ambitious, cross-disciplinary work.

People cluster together in an outdoor shelter, looking at papers and flowers
Dan Rosenberg/Provided From left, MFA students Gerardo Iglesias, Sarah Iqbal and Aishvarya Arora listen to observations by two young poets at the Ithaca Children’s Garden.
Creative Writing Program

Cornell writers inspire kids’ poetry at Ithaca Children’s Garden

Cornell Chronicle

A crew of Cornell creative writers lent their time and experience to guide young poets during Nature Poetry in the Garden, an event held May 3 at the Ithaca Children’s Garden.