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David Parker/Science Photo Library Arecibo Observatory
Astronomy

Astronomer paints vivid history of Arecibo Observatory

Cornell Chronicle

In a new book, Donald Campbell, Ph.D. ’71, professor emeritus of astronomy, recounts the history of Arecibo from construction to its last days under Cornell’s management in 2011.

Aerial view of a green field in summer, a distant view and a square marked on on the ground, set with small boxes
Chris Kitchen for Cornell University Researchers said enclosed fields, just off Cornell's campus, vastly expand the experiences of lab mice, which have only ever lived in a cage a little larger than a shoebox.
Neurobiology and Behavior

In lab mice rehomed to fields, anxiety is reversed

Cornell Chronicle

When postdoctoral researcher Matthew Zipple releases lab mice into a large, enclosed field just off Cornell’s campus, something remarkable happens.

Pontoon boat on still, gray water
Jason Koski/Cornell University A team of scientists from Cornell, the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation took a DEC boat out onto Seneca Lake in September to place sensors and take water samples from the lake's depths.
Ecology and evolutionary biology

The mystery of the Seneca Drums persists

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers are plumbing the depths of the largest and deepest of New York’s Finger Lakes to explain the source of its famous booming sounds.

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Joel Muniz/Unsplash Gratitude helps you live up to your best self and be a better member of society.
Psychology

From better sleep to stronger communities: The benefits of gratitude

A&S Communications

Gratitude not only makes you feel good, but it helps you live up to your best self and be a better member of society, psychology professor Thomas Gilovich has found.

Nick Salvatore
Cornell University file photo
American Studies Program

Nick Salvatore, ‘one of our foremost historians,’ dies at 82

Cornell Chronicle

Salvatore taught at the ILR School and in the American Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences for 36 years, retiring in 2017 as the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Emeritus Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations.

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Alumni authors

Your December 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include fiction from A&S alum Thomas Pynchon ’59, an award-winning poetry collection and a study of a small town.

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Kathy Hovis From left, Wilson Kan, Marian Caballo and Reya Babu are all graduating this December.
Student accomplishments

Celebrating the journey with our December A&S grads

A&S Communications

December graduates walk the stage this month, so we sat down for a talk with three A&S grads who’ve taken different pathways through Cornell.

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Neurobiology and Behavior

Brain stimulation during sleep boosts weak memories in mice

Cornell Chronicle

The mice could remember new experiences that would normally be forgotten – a finding with important implications for treating Alzheimer’s disease.

Three people stand next to a silver device, about a foot taller than the people, made of a post, a box with electronics inside, and a circular top
Alexandra Bayer/Cornell University Shami Chatterjee, associate professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences; James Cordes, the George Feldstein Professor of Astronomy; and doctoral student Sashabaw Niedbalski, on the roof of the Space Sciences Building next to the Global Radio Explorer Telescope.
Astronomy

Cake-pan telescope searches the sky for fast radio bursts

Cornell Chronicle

One of the world's smallest telescopes, it is part of a series of eight terminals installed around the globe.

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Student creative works

Undergrads launch magazine featuring in-depth stories

A&S Communications

A new student-run magazine focuses on long-form journalism that reflects the culture of Cornell and Ithaca.

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Provided Ellen Stekert '57 on the Hill for a return performance in 1960.
Alumni

At age 90, a singer, collector, and scholar of folk music goes digital

Cornellians

After a long career onstage and off, Ellen Stekert ’57 is focused on preservation—releasing songs from her vast archive on Bandcamp.

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SAM sokkolinmony/Unsplash Main gate of Presh Khan Kampong svay Temple in Cambodia's Presh Vihea Province, on the border with Thailand
Government

Domestic politics driving Thailand-Cambodia border tensions says Cornell Southeast Asia expert

A&S Communications

Thailand and Cambodia have long had fraught relations, professor Tom Pepinsky says after Thailand’s military launched air strikes along the Thailand-Cambodia border.

Book cover: Expanding Verse
Provided Book cover: Expanding Verse
Asian studies

Campana wins MLA’s Scaglione Prize for book on Japanese poetry

A&S Communications

“Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media" is study of work by poets who push the genre in unexpected directions.

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eCornell Frances Lee
Public engagement

Workshop, talk focused on applying lessons learned from COVID

A&S Communications

Scholars converged at Cornell to talk about lessons policymakers and elected officials could glean from their research into the COVID pandemic to help deal with the next public health emergency.

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China and Asia-Pacific Studies

Cornell-China trip celebrates 20 years of Levinson Program

A&S Communications

Leaders celebrated the Levinson Program and joined other Cornell delegates at the Cornell-China Forum.