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Physics

Electrons stay put in layers of mismatched ‘quantum Legos’

Cornell Chronicle

Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go – or don’t go – in certain layered materials.

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Social sciences

Cornell Center for Social Sciences awards fall grants targeting $50M in external research support

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Center for Social Sciences offers multiple grants to help Cornell faculty maximize their research impact. These awards help seed ambitious projects and provide support to teams of faculty applying to major external funding and collaboration opportunities.

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Government

Chile latest test case in South America’s far right shift

A&S Communications

“Chile's vibrant democracy faces a new challenge in a highly polarized second-round presidential election" Dec. 14, says Ken Roberts, professor of government.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Forever young? Extracellular vesicles may be key to halt aging

Cornell Chronicle

Scientists have outlined exactly how embryonic stem cells protect other cells from the effects of oxidative stress, thus preventing cellular aging.

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Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University The "Improving STEM Learning and Pedagogical Assessment" innovation project focused on creating an equitable environment for students to work in teams.
Education innovation

CTI grants enable faculty to research how students think and learn

Cornell Chronicle

With a 2024-2025 Innovative Teaching & Learning Grant, A&S professors collaborated with others to develope an AI tool to foster student metacognitive skills around teamwork in STEM classes.

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Provided Caitie Barrett, an archaeologist who investigates everyday life, doing field work in Pompeii in summer 2025
Archaeology

‘Households in Context’ wins Wiseman Book Award

A&S Communications

Based on a 2018 conference co-organized by Caitie Barrett, professor of classics, and Jennifer Carrington, Ph.D. ’19, the book focuses on houses and households during a period when Egypt was ruled by Greeks and then by Romans.

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History

Is Silicon Valley driving Trump’s policy on Honduras?

A&S Communications

Trump’s interest in Honduras is more about U.S. business interests, than democracy, says professor Raymond Craib, a historian of modern Latin America.

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Provided Kylie Williamson ’26 has been named Navy/Marines Student of the Year by Navy Federal Credit Union, a top honor in the Reserve Officers Training Corps system.
Physics

Cornell Navy ROTC midshipman earns top honor

Cornell Chronicle

Kylie Williamson ’26 has been named Navy/Marines Student of the Year by Navy Federal Credit Union, a top honor in the Reserve Officers Training Corps system. Williamson is the first Cornell student to win the award.

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University Ligia Coelho, a Postdoctoral Fellow in astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences and fellow at the Carl Sagan Institute, holds a menstrual cup.
Astronomy

Spaceflight-tested menstrual cup offers choice on long missions

Cornell Chronicle

To equip astronauts with health choices for future missions, a Cornell postdoctoral fellow is leading research with AstroCup, a group that recently tested two menstrual cups in spaceflight as payload on an uncrewed rocket flight.

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Alexandra Bayer/Cornell University Students on the first day of classes in fall 2025.
Alumni

As higher ed looks to the future, it's vital to understand the past

Cornellians

Praveen Sethupathy ’03, an A&S computer sciences alum who co-chairs a faculty task force exploring Cornell’s role in a changing educational, research, and social landscape, serves as co-chair of the Committee on the Future of the American University, a group of 18 faculty appointed by the provost to explore how Cornell can evolve to best serve future generations while pursuing its core mission of education, scholarship, public impact, and community engagement.

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Charissa King-O’Brien/Cornell Engineering Postdoctoral researcher Rebecca Gerdes, Ph.D. ’24, (left) and Jillian Goldfarb, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, led an interdisciplinary team that determined that organic residues of plant oils are poorly preserved in calcareous soils from the Mediterranean.
Archaeology

Ancient dirty dishes reveal decades of questionable findings

Cornell Chronicle

An interdisciplinary team of researchers determined that organic residues of plant oils are poorly preserved in calcareous soils from the Mediterranean, leading decades of archaeologists to likely misidentify olive oil in ceramic artifacts.

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Climate science

Grants to support research at nexus of AI, climate science

Cornell Chronicle

New grant funding will support eight research projects seeking to reduce AI’s energy use and integrate AI in environmental research.

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Simon Wheeler for Cornell University
Alumni authors

Your November 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s titles featured in Cornellians include poetry, a famed restaurateur’s memoir, and a chronicle of the 1929 stock market crash

Gail Heriot
Provided Gail Heriot
Freedom and Free Societies

Talk examines Civil Rights Act’s unintended consequences

A&S Communications

Legal scholar Gail Heriot will describe a chain of unintended consequences of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 in her talk "Why We Walk on Eggshells," Dec. 8.

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Creative Writing Program

Professor emerita Stephanie Vaughn, ‘writer’s writer,’ dies at 81

Cornell Chronicle

Vaughn taught creative writing and literature at Cornell for 39 years, retiring in 2022 as professor of literatures in English emerita.