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Music

Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series announces 2025-26 Season

A&S Communications

The season will include explorations of timeless classics, as well as concerts highlighting new frontiers in music.

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Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Gunpoets
Summer series

Cornell SCE offers free outdoor concerts, lectures this summer

Cornell Chronicle

In the 2025 Summer Events Series, A&S Dean Peter John Loewen will give a lecture on AI; and beloved alumna author Diane Ackerman, M.F.A. ’73, M.A. ’77, Ph.D. ’79, will talk about her research trips.

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University Jamila Walida Simon, MA ’10, standing, just completed her doctorate in global development.
Staff accomplishments

Staff graduates recognized for academic achievements

Cornell Chronicle

More than two dozen staff members who earned degrees at Cornell or other institutions this year while also working at the university were celebrated in a ceremony June 10.

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Takahiro Kyono/Creative Commons license 2.0 Brian Wilson in 2012 in The Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Reunion
Music

‘End of a hopeful era’: Cornell expert reflects on Wilson and Stone legacies

A&S Communications

The deaths of Brian Wilson, co-founder of The Beach Boys, and funk and soul pioneer Sly Stone, of Sly and the Family Stone, mark the end of a pivotal era in music, says professor Judith Peraino.

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Kathy Hovis From left, faculty members Alexandra Kleeman, Philip Milner and Talbot Andrews presented their work at the June 6 panel.
Reunion 2025

Professors address climate change from multiple disciplines

A&S Communications

The panel, during Reunion 2025, was called "Beyond the Apocalypse: New Narratives and Innovations for Climate Action."

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Provided St. James A.M.E. Zion Church
Ithaca community engagement

History Center exhibit chronicles excavation at Ithaca’s ‘Freedom Church’

Cornell Chronicle

The exhibit on Ithaca’s St. James A.M.E. Zion Church will open on Juneteenth with a community event scheduled for 4 p.m.

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Diogo Lopes de Oliveira/Provided PCST Network President Sook-kyoung Cho presents Bruce Lewenstein with the 2025 Award for the Advancement of Science Communication as a Professional Field (PCST Award).
Science and Technology Studies

Lewenstein wins science communication prize

A&S Communications

The inaugural Award for the Advancement of Science Communication as a Professional Field from the International Network on Public Communication of Science & Technology recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of science communication as a field.

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Military history

Military use in Los Angeles coming right up to Insurrection Act

A&S Communications

History professor David Silbey points out restrictions on and risks of using active-duty military to respond to protests.

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Psychology

Study shows how city life shapes music choices

A&S Communications

Living in a metropolis broadens our musical horizons, and makes our playlists less alike.

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Steven Strogatz, the Susan and Barton Winokur Distinguished Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Public engagement

New York Times series features math by Prof Steven Strogatz

A&S Communications

Strogatz has been busy with outreach activities as the inaugural Susan and Barton Winokur Distinguished Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics.

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Lindsay France/Cornell University McGraw tower in summer from the Alpha Phi Alpha Centennial Memorial bench.
Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability

Cornell Atkinson awards catalyze solutions in food, climate, clean energy

Cornell Chronicle

Atkinson Venture Fund awards have distributed $21.7 million to 223 projects spanning every college on Cornell’s campus over 15 years.

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Provided Victor Schwartz ’80
Alumni

'Wine is not fungible': How an alum's firm made global headlines

Cornellians

The small, family company founded by Victor Schwartz ’80, an A&S econ graduate, became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against import tariffs—and won.

Thomas A. Lewis
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Cornell leadership

Thomas A. Lewis named Graduate School dean, vice provost

Cornell Chronicle

A professor of religious studies at Brown, Lewis will also hold a faculty appointment as a professor of religious studies and German studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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In memoriam

Savely Senderovich, scholar of Russian literature, dies at 89

Cornell Chronicle

Romance Studies … Savely Senderovich, professor of Russian literature and medieval studies emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), died on April 1 in Clarkstown, New York. He was 89. A mainstay of the Department of Russian Literature from 1977 …

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Provided The muon g-2 ring sits in its detector hall amidst electronics racks, the muon beamline and other equipment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Physics

One tiny particle could complicate predictions of physics theorists

Cornell Chronicle

The international, interdisciplinary team measured the magnetic anomaly of the muon – a tiny, elusive particle that could have very big implications for understanding the subatomic world.