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Three people on a stage with bright banners behind them — Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Anne Thompson of NBC News, Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund, and David Lodge, the Francis J. DiSalvo Director of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability (left to right) discuss the value of visionary partnerships between Cornell Atkinson and organizations such as EDF on April 10 during Cornell Atkinson’s 15th anniversary celebration.

Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability

Cornell Atkinson at 15: celebrating science, fostering hope

4/18/2025 Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability’s 15th-anniversary conference addressed past successes and future efforts to support climate and sustainability.

three pianos on a stage — Simon Wheeler Three instruments from the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards sit onstage awaiting performers before a 2024 concert in Barnes Hall.

Alumni support

Center for Historical Keyboards boosted by $5 million gift

4/17/2025 A&S Communications

The gift will secure the future of the center's museum-quality holdings, as well as a rich program of concerts, festivals and educational offerings.

Undergraduate research

Ask an Ambassador: How research makes a difference

4/16/2025 A&S Student Ambassador

Gloria's lab uses MRI imaging to study how exercise might be a powerful therapeutic treatment for Parkinson's Disease.

Four people stand in a circle, chatting and smiling — Sreang Hok/Cornell University Graduate students chat at Cornell's Big Red Barn

Psychology

Finding friendship at first whiff

4/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Two women meeting for the first time can judge within minutes whether they have potential to be friends – guided as much by smell as any other sense, according to new Cornell psychology research.

Five elephants of various sizes wade in a water hole — Ivonne Kienast/Provided "The Elephants of Dzanga Bai,” a pre-conference sound and photo installation will kick off the program on April 24

Society for the Humanities

In ‘Silence’ spring conference, Fellows ‘attend to what is not there’ 

4/15/2025 A&S Communications

On April 25, seven Society for the Humanities’ Fellows will present their projects in progress during the annual Spring Fellows’ conference, highlighting the various ways that the theme of silence has been explored –

Several people dancing in formation in a sunny studio — Anthony Lewis Lall/Provided Preparing for the April 25-26 "SHED" performance, Ashley Dorais and other dancers rehearse elements choreographed by the influential Merce Cunningham

Performing and Media Arts

PMA’s ‘SHED’ performance features intermedia dance

4/15/2025 A&S Communications

The culmination of a year-long study of “New/Futurism: Installation, Intermedia, Interactive & Immersive Dance,” the April 25-26 performance also features the work of influential choreographer Merce Cunningham and highlights collaboration among art forms.

Person paging through a notebook set on a table piled with archival materials — José Beduya/Provided Irina Troconis, assistant professor of Latin American studies, pores over a selection of handwritten Venezuelan migrant testimonies, part of the TodoSomos archive, in the Reading Room of Cornell University Library’s Rare and Manuscript Collections.

Cornell University Library

Symposium launches archive of Venezuelan migrant testimonies

4/14/2025 Cornell Chronicle

On April 18, this collection of migrant experiences will be presented to the public in a daylong symposium at the A. D. White House.

Provided Jennet Dickinson, assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and researcher at CLASSE, works on a silicon module for the upgrade of the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Cornell is assembling a detector using over 2,000 of these modules.

Physics

Cornell Celebrates Breakthrough Prize for LHC Collaborations

4/14/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers are helping upgrade the CMS detector at CERN, as LHC collaborations win the 2024 Breakthrough Prize for fundamental physics discoveries.

Student life

Cornellian selected for Gaither Fellows Program

4/14/2025 Student & Campus Life

… A&S senior Rafaela Uzan is one of just 16 selected for the James C. Gaither Junior Fellows Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. … German Studies … Uzan, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences has been selected to join the James C. Gaither Junior Fellows Program …

People on the dimly-lit set of a film — Provided Bixby (right) works on the PMA production of Milkshake Kiss in spring 2025.

For Bixby Piccolo Hill ’27, ‘It was always Cornell’

4/14/2025 Alumni Affairs & Development

A recipient of the Martin and Bernice Rosenzweig Scholarship, in addition to Cornell grant aid, Bixby is grateful for the generous financial support of his studies in Performing and Media Arts.

Person sitting under a tree — Angel Balashev/Unsplash

Sociology

DIY religion: More Americans finding faith outside church

4/14/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell-led research finds that large numbers of Americans are leaving organized religion – not in favor of secular rationality, but to pursue spirituality in ways that better align with their individual values.