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Artificial intelligence leadership

National Science Foundation announces Cornell-led AI Materials Institute

7/29/2025 Cornell Chronicle

The NSF, in partnership with Intel, will invest $20 million over five years to establish the Artificial Intelligence Materials Institute at Cornell, as part of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes.

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Alumni

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

7/25/2025 Cornellians

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

Alumni

Meredith Oppenheim has some innovative ideas about growing older

7/25/2025 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.

Music

Modern theory of music perception posited by 1700s potter

7/23/2025 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.

Person speaking into a microphone — 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

7/22/2025 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."

Stage with five pianos on it — 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

7/22/2025 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

7/21/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Democracy is in retreat across much of the world, and for years Cornell government scholars have been tracking its erosion in various regions – including the United States. Now they’ve brought these global perspectives on democratic backsliding together in one volume.

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Media

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

7/18/2025 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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Alumni authors

Your July 2025 reads

7/18/2025 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

7/17/2025 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.

Government and technology

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

7/17/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences, shared takeaways from his decade-long AI research during a lecture kicking off the Cornell University School of Continuing Education’s Summer Events Series.

Person in black Cornell t-shirt reaches gracefully to hit a small white ball with a paddle — Provided Gina Fu ’28, a statistics and economics major in the College of Arts and Sciences and vice president of the Cornell Table Tennis Club, competes at the College Table Tennis National Championships in April.

Student life

Student table tennis champ heads to World University Games

7/17/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Statistics and economics major Gina Fu ’28 will represent Team Canada in international table tennis competition.

Alumni

How practicing yoga has helped me regain my flow

7/17/2025 Cornellians

A&S government alum Kevin Gibson '10 writes in a Chime In column that he was burned out from a career in law when trips to India and Sweden put him on the path to healing.

Philosophy

Philosophy Ph.D. candidate wins Newcombe Fellowship

7/16/2025 Cornell University Graduate School

Migdalia Arcila-Valenzuela is one of 20 recipients of Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for 2025-26, selected from nearly 600 applicants.

People in red hard hats construct a structure on the floor of a large indoor space — Provided Cornell's Steel Bridge Project Team at the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)’s Student Steel Bridge Competition.

Physics

Partnership helps Cornell student team build a winning bridge

7/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell’s Student Machine Shop at the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP), students have access to industry-standard equipment and expert guidance: “We have users from physics, chemistry, architecture, engineering, physical education — you name it.”