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Awards and Honors

Freelance Theater Critic and Editor Brittani Samuel Wins George Jean Nathan Award

A&S Communications

The award committee praised Samuel for her “impressive breadth of address to the playgoing public,” foregrounding “the critic’s own social position in an effort to promote more thoughtful and empathetic theatergoing.”

Brian Crane
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Brian Crane named director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology

Cornell Chronicle

Brian Crane began as Director of the Weill Center for Cell and Molecular Biology on January 1, 2025. He is only the second Director in the History of the Weill Institute since its founding by inaugural Director Scott Emr in 2008.

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Cornell University file photo Melissa Harris-Perry delivers the 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture at Cornell
Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures

Writer Melissa Harris-Perry to speak on community care and democracy

A&S Communications

The Feb. 27 public lecture will be the third event in the Black History Month series organized and hosted by the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures.

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Philosophy and Science

Bohannon, Manne event focuses on female body image, evolution

A&S Communications

"Is Fat Female? Evolution, Feminism, and Getting the Story Right” takes place in person March 5; a virtual conversation between the two will be livestreamed March 6.

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Sociology

With education funding cut looming, ‘irreplaceable data on schools’ at risk

A&S Communications

The real economic and social value of the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences research won’t show up in DOGE’s metrics.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Protein shuttling mechanism helps bacteria pump out antibiotics

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led collaboration uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: a shuttling mechanism that helps a complex of proteins pump out a wide spectrum of antibiotics from the cell.

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Ryan Young/Cornell University Postdoctoral researcher Christopher Petroff (center), doctoral candidate Virginia McGhee (left), doctoral student Azriel Finsterer (right) and Lara Estroff, the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry in Cornell Engineering (background), work on perovskites – a class of compound minerals that over the last decade have become the most exciting alternative to silicon.
The 2030 Project: A Cornell Climate Initiative

Solar solutions: ‘Crazy’ perovskite offers sustainable alternative to silicon

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers are studying how the material can be recycled and grown to be more durable.

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Provided/Cornell University Graduate School Professor Natasha Holmes (left) and doctoral candidate Rebeckah Fussell
Graduate student research

Mentorship series: Rebeckah Fussell and Natasha Holmes

Cornell University Graduate School

In a series of interviews with faculty-graduate student pairs, the Cornell University Graduate School spoke with Rebeckah Fussell, a Ph.D. candidate in physics, and Natasha Holmes, Ann S. Bowers Associate Professor of physics.

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Government

The key to some nations’ public support for mental health care

Cornell Chronicle

Isabel Perera explains why some countries have failed to provide adequate services for the mentally ill while others expanded care.

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Alumni awards

Alumna playwright honored with Dramatists Guild award

A&S Communications

Playwright Gloria Oladipo '21 is also an award-winning cultural critic and journalist with The Guardian.

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Student honors

Junior wins international reporting honor

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Gabe Levin, editor in chief of the Cornell Daily Sun and a student in the College of Arts & Sciences, spent the summer of 2024 reporting on the Israel-Gaza war.

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Robin Herrod/McKnight Center for the Performing Arts Jonathan Biss
Cornell Concert Series

Pianist Jonathan Biss featured on Cornell Concert Series Feb. 21 

A&S Communications

Biss is a performer, teacher and musical thinker whose on-stage repertoire ranges from the core canon to contemporary commissions. He will perform works by Franz Schubert and Tyson Gholston Davis. 

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Fuel cell research

X-ray study sheds light on cost-effective fuel cell materials

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have captured an unprecedented, real-time view of how a promising catalyst material transforms during operation, providing new insights that could lead to replacement of expensive precious metals in clean-energy technologies.

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Jack Bryant

Visiting Associate Professor
Performing and Media Arts

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Ben Frahm

Visiting Assistant Professor
Performing and Media Arts