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In new book, Farred breaks down his long-time sports fandoms

8/18/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Grant Farred, a professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center, chronicles his love for both a distant and a local sports team in “A Sports Odyssey: My Ithaca Journal,” published July 25 by Temple University Press.

Person sitting in tall grass on a hilside, reading a book — Jason Koski/Cornell University Reading on Libe Slope

Alumni

Your August 2025 Reads

8/15/2025 Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include the latest from a top mystery writer, a Marvel omnibus, and a look at challenges to democracy – many by A&S faculty and alumni.

A crowd raises their hands with excitement as a band plays on a stage (barely in the image) and confetti rains down from above — Lindsay France/Cornell University The Flaming Lips play Barton in 2010

Alumni

From Springsteen to the Stones: Your Big Red concert memories

8/15/2025 Cornellians

We asked you to recall the musicians you saw on the Hill—and like a great rock show, your responses blew our minds

Anthropology

Mountains embodied: understanding head shaping in ancient Andes

8/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Matthew Velasco argues that the reduction of head shape to a marker of ethnic identity has been a colonial invention.

Astronomy

Carl Sagan Medal awarded to astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger

8/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

The award recognizes and honors outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the public.

Science and Technology Studies

Margaret Rossiter, historian of women in science, dies at 81

8/14/2025 Cornell Chronicle

… that. “Margaret was a warrior for womankind and a more complete history of science,” said Ronald Kline , Bovay … in 1971. Rossiter arrived at Cornell in the mid-1980s on a visiting lectureship. Later in that decade, she was courted …

close-up of pillls of sevreal sizes and colors, spilling out of a bottle — pina messina/Unsplash

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Creating safe medicinal molecules with sustainable electrochemistry

8/14/2025 A&S Communications

Song Lin and collaborators use electrochemistry to selectively synthesize chiral compounds – important in pharmaceuticals.

Historic black and white photo of three people in evening coats standing around a machine — Rare and Manuscript Collections George Moler 1875 (at far right) and other faculty with the dynamo during Sibley College’s 60th anniversary in 1931.

Alumni

How Cornell became home to the world’s first outdoor electric lights

8/13/2025 Cornellians

In the 19th century, a pioneering ‘dynamo’ not only lit up the campus—it sparked advances in engineering research on the Hill

White spark of light against a blue-black background — Casey Horner/Unsplash

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Light-powered, reusable: Sustainable catalyst drives challenging reactions

8/13/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemistry researchers have designed a light-powered, reusable catalyst that’s pre-charged by electricity and capable of driving challenging reactions, with applications including drug development and environmental clean-up.

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.