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Faculty excellence

A&S honors 13 faculty with endowed professorships

A&S Communications

The professorships are made possible because of gifts from alumni, parents and friends.

Book cover: The Greater Second World War
History

Global perspectives reframe timeline and scope of WWII

Cornell Chronicle

This summer marks the 80th anniversary of the “official” end of World War II, but a new book co-edited by Ruth Lawlor, assistant professor of history, extends the war’s timeline back to 1931 and into the mid-1950s.

A sign sticks out from a crowd of people, saying "the Earth is flat)
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Psychology

Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe

Cornell Chronicle

Overconfidence is a hallmark trait of people who believe in conspiracies, Cornell psychology researchers have found.

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Government

Iranian nuclear project may be more dangerous now than ever

A&S Communications

Professor of government Uriel Abulof: “In the aftermath of recent regional escalations, there’s a growing risk of repeating a familiar—and dangerous—pattern: ceasefire, self-congratulation, and strategic blindness

Liliana Colanzi
Faculty honors

Colanzi wins Zinklar Award for short fiction

A&S Communications

Liliana Colanzi’s award is the first Zinklar Prize to honor Spanish language fiction.

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University Summer reading on the Arts Quad
Alumni

Your June 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include the latest from A&S faculty Ishion Hutchinson and Charlie Green, plus A&A alumni Chris Pavone '89 and Sarah Spain '02.

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Psychology

Emotion – not just action – helps brain define, divide events

Cornell Chronicle

Study participants who watched scenes from popular movies showed emotion plays a larger role than previously understood in establishing event boundaries that help structure attention and memory.

Book cover: Child of Light
Provided In "Child of Light," an experimental historical fiction set in 1890s Utica, Jesi Bender-Buell '07 tells the story of a young girl as she tries to understand her world through the interests of her parents: Spiritualism for Mama, electrical engineering for Papa.
Alumni

Why experimental art is more important than ever

Cornellians

Literatures in English … As an artist, one thing I’ve learned over the years is that people, in general, hate the word “experimental.” They think it’s pretentious, lazy, or just weird for the sake of being weird. Most tell me that it doesn’t mean …

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Research support

SPROUT Awards cultivate early-stage engineering research

Cornell Chronicle

From designing a reversible male contraceptive to detecting life on distant ocean worlds, the latest Cornell Engineering SPROUT Awards are cultivating breakthroughs across medicine, space exploration, robotics and environmental sensing.

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Devin Flores/Cornell University Enslavers posted as many as a quarter-million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves. Ed Baptist is leading the public crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move, that has digitized tens of thousands of these advertisements in an open-source site accessible to the public.
History

Research at risk: Records of enslaved people seeking freedom

Cornell Chronicle

A research project collecting records of freedom-seeking enslaved people in the pre-Civil War U.S. came to a halt in early May.

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Northrup Grumman An illustration of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope
Astronomy

Cornell astronomers win time on James Webb Space Telescope

A&S Communications

“It’s the cutting edge of what we can achieve, with better precisions and resolutions than other instruments.”

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Kathy Hovis Mehler, left, and Rosenberg, right
Alumni experiences

Reunion 2025: The view from five years out

A&S Communications

Members of the Class of 2020 remember their journeys at Cornell.

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Physics

Better basketball through theoretical physics?

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers are applying a theory about the movement of electrons to a much taller, human system – the National Basketball Association.

Alissa Worly Jerud ’08
Provided Alissa Worly Jerud ’08
Alumni

Why our attempts to avoid emotional discomfort often backfire

Cornellians

"As a clinical psychologist, I’ve learned that moments of anxiety can be golden opportunities to learn to tolerate distress," A&S psychology major Alissa Worly Jerud ’08 writes.

Person speaks, holding a microphone
Credit: Sheryl Sinkow/Provided Left to right: Charles Walcott PhD ’59; Holger Klinck, the John W. Fitzpatrick Director of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics; and K. Lisa Yang ’74 at the center’s advisory council meeting, where Yang honored Walcott with the establishment of the Charles Walcott Graduate Research Fellowship in Conservation Bioacoustics. Photo by Sheryl Sinkow.
Neurobiology and Behavior

New $1.5M graduate research fellowship honors former director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Chronicle

A new $1.5 million gift from philanthropist K. Lisa Yang ’74 has established the Charles Walcott Graduate Research Fellowship in Conservation Bioacoustics to fund graduate research at the Lab of Ornithology.