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Laura Chichisan
Broad Impact Feature

Cornell chemists tackle climate change

A&S Communications

Innovative and far-reaching discoveries such as better electric batteries, carbon capture technologies, renewable plastics and improvements in solar cells are just a few of their research areas.

Two people holding a large, colorful basket between them
Provided Bowker with one of the basket-makers.
Alumni

Alum helps Kenyan villagers earn a living from their handcrafts

Cornellians

Margaret Higgins Bowker ’68 runs a nonprofit that brings artisans’ work to the U.S.—and a student helped her expand sales online.

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Community Engagement

Engaged Opportunity Grants connect students with hands-on community projects

Cornell Chronicle

The David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement awarded nine grants to a diverse array of projects that connect classroom learning with hands-on collaboration.

In the sky, a perfect half circle appears around a rising sun with two bright "sun dogs" on either side
Tenbergen/Creative Commons license 4.0 A sun dog and 22 degree halo appearing over Winnipeg, Canada. Sun dogs and other visual effects occur when icy crystals in Earth’s atmosphere align in certain ways; Cornell astronomers predict that similar effects can appear when starlight interacts with quartz crystals in exoplanet atmospheres.
Astronomy

Sun dogs, other celestial effects could appear in alien skies

Cornell Chronicle

Phenomena common to Earth’s atmosphere can appear in the skies over some exoplanets of the “hot Jupiter” variety.

Eun-Ah Kim
Cornell University Eun-Ah Kim
Artificial intelligence leadership

National Science Foundation announces Cornell-led AI Materials Institute

Cornell Chronicle

The NSF, in partnership with Intel, will invest $20 million over five years.

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Provided Podcasting during Super Bowl LIX
Alumni

She’s got game: Sarah Spain ’02 is a star of sports journalism

Cornellians

The ESPN veteran hosts the first-ever daily podcast on women’s athletics—and she just published her first book

Meredith Oppenheim '95
Provided Meredith Oppenheim '95
Alumni

Meredith Oppenheim has some innovative ideas about growing older

Cornell Chronicle

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Meredith Oppenheim ‘95, founder of Vitality Society and now a strategic advisor in the senior housing space.

Book cover: Hearing With the Mind
Music

Modern theory of music perception posited by 1700s potter

Cornell Chronicle

A new book by Carmel Raz focuses on the work of John Holden, an 18th-century potter who also wrote an influential treatise on musical theory.

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Sean Coon/Creative Commons license 2.0 Malcolm-Jamal Warner at National Black Theater Festival in 2007
Performing and Media Arts

‘Significant cultural loss’: Cornell TV expert on Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s death

A&S Communications

Professor Samantha Sheppard: “Warner’s legacy is both rooted in his foundational and very funny role within a groundbreaking moment in television history and his commitment to moving beyond the character and show that turned him into a beloved household name."

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Provided Historic instruments from the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards will take center stage during public concerts, lectures, roundtables and more during Forte | Piano 2025: Crafting Soundscapes.
Music

Festival celebrates pianos in history, history in pianos

A&S Communications

Musicians, scholars and instrument makers will gather at Cornell Aug. 5-10 for Forte | Piano 2025: Crafting Soundscapes, a conference and festival exploring dimensions of historical keyboard practice from performance and scholarship to instrument making and listening.

Book cover: Global Challenges to Democracy
Government

Cornell scholars address global democratic erosion in book

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell government scholars have been tracking democracy's erosion in various regions – including the United States.

Stephen Colbert
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Media

Politics and punchlines: Cornell humor expert on ‘Colbert’ cancellation

A&S Communications

Political satire—long a staple of late-night TV—plays a critical role in democracy, cutting through partisanship and exposing hypocrisies that traditional news often can’t, says philosophy professor David Shoemaker.

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University Reading on Libe Slope
Alumni authors

Your July 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include a look at the world’s first advice column, self-help for parents, and a scholarly book on Venezuela.

illustration of a "wall" made of small dots – An illustration of a double-walled membrane formed by lipid and protein molecules.
Credit: bagus/Adobe Stock An illustration of a double-walled membrane formed by lipid and protein molecules.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

‘Breakthrough Science’ grant supports disease-targeting lipid research

Cornell Chronicle

A grant from the Ono Pharma Breakthrough Science Initiative, which supports bold new ideas in science, will help Cornell researchers study how chemical modifications to proteins play a powerful role in cell survival.

Peter John Loewen
Government and technology

Optimism about AI lowest in US, says A&S dean

Cornell Chronicle

Peter John Loewen shared takeaways from his decade-long AI research during a recent lecture.