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Alexandra Bayer/Cornell University President Michael I. Kotlikoff congratulates a doctoral candidate at the 2025 Ph.D. Recognition Ceremony on May 23 at Barton Hall.
Graduate student honors

Ph.D. graduates overcame obstacles to find success

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell’s newest Ph.D.s found success even through the unexpected events of the last few years, President Michael I. Kotlikoff reminded nearly 400 doctoral graduates at the 2025 Ph.D. Recognition Ceremony on May 23 at Barton Hall.

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Provided Cornell Bowers students play the games they brought to life at the 2025 GDIAC showcase.
Computer science

Students got game at annual video game showcase

Cornell Bowers CIS

The showcase was the final exam for students in Cornell’s game design courses

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Ruben Portugues

Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor
Neurobiology and Behavior

A lacross player in white and red uniform holds a trophy aloft; he's surrounded by celebrating teammates
Provided The Cornell men’s lacrosse team celebrates after defeating Maryland in the NCAA Championship Game May 26 in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
Athletics

Cornell lacrosse wins national championship, first in 48 years

Cornell Chronicle

The Big Red defeated Maryland 13-10 in the NCAA title game held at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

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Devin Flores/Cornell University Marine 2nd Lt. Connor Eaton is pinned at the Cornell University ROTC Tri-Service Commissioning Ceremony, held May 23 in Statler Auditorium.
Student life

Cornell graduates aim to ‘lead from the front’ as military officers

Cornell Chronicle

During a May 23 ceremony in Statler Auditorium, more than 25 members of Cornell’s Reserve Officers' Training Corps Tri-Service Brigade were commissioned as second lieutenants or ensigns in the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Space Force.

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Noël Heaney/Cornell University Graduate student Esther Kondo Heller (MFA, Cornell Poetry ’23)
Literatures in English

Your May 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include essays on womanhood by A&S alumna Nicole Graev Lipson ’98.

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Simon Wheeler Associate Professor Roger Moseley, left, is taking over as the new director of the Milstein Program, a job that Associate Professor Austin Bunn, right, has held for the past three years.
Academic innovation

Music professor named new director of Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

A&S Communications

Roger Moseley, associate professor of music, will begin in the new role July 1.

plastic bottles
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Happy together: Peroxide binds incompatible polymers for recycling

Cornell Chronicle

“The dream is, if you can make a really rigid polymer that’s also really tough, then you can make packaging that uses less material, yet has the same sort of properties."

two plank-shapes, one with a stripe and one with a white root shape hover over neon color feather shapes
Yao Yang and Madeline Degroodt Artist’s rendering of watching energy materials in action.
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Moving pictures: Researchers use movies to diagnose EV battery failure

Cornell Chronicle

The technique enables them to watch chemistry in action and collect real-time movies showing what happens to energy materials during temperature changes.

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Steve Johnson/Unsplash
Psychology

Brain-inspired AI model learns sensory data efficiently

A&S Communications

With brain mechanisms as a guide, Cornell researchers are designing low-energy robotic systems inspired by biology and useful for a wide range of potential applications.

Nikta Khalilkhani
Provided Nikta Khalilkhani
Psychology

Roper Center announces 2025 student fellows advancing public opinion research

Cornell Chronicle

This year’s cohort includes the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow and three Kohut Fellows. These emerging scholars will advance data-driven research by contributing original scholarly work that uses Roper iPoll’s extensive survey archive.

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Roger William Photography
Awards and Honors

Seventeen Receive Awards Recognizing Inclusive Excellence

Cornell University Graduate School

Awardees were recognized for the significant impacts they have made to advance access, engagement and belonging through their service and leadership.

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Awards and Honors

Physicist Brad Ramshaw awarded $2M as Brown Investigator

Cornell Chronicle

“This grant will allow us to pursue some high-risk, novel ideas for how to measure material properties like elasticity and high-frequency conductivity that have previously been inaccessible in 2D materials.”

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Diana Ayubi helps Khurshid Hussainy with some finishing touches before a cap-and-gown photo shoot.
Student life

They fled Afghanistan together – and now they're graduating

Cornellians

After escaping the Taliban, nine women matriculated on the Hill; the first to complete their degrees are in the Class of ’25

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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."