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Career development resources

Career Development targets resources for students in tech fields

A&S Communications

Tech students need to target specific organizations that match their interests, skills and values.

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Ministry of Defense of Ukraine/Creative Commons license 2.0 Anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine
International politics

U.S.-Russia peace plan should be ‘non-starter’ for Ukraine

A&S Communications

The leaked peace initiative, which would allegedly require Kyiv to surrender territory and significantly reduce the size of its army and some types of weaponry, is largely an attempt to put pressure on Zelensky, says David Silbey.

Artistic portrait of a person in argyle pattern sweater vest holds a small model of a molecule and looks pensive
Christopher Michel Photography Roald Hoffmann, the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor, Emeritus, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Faculty honors

Portraits honor 8 Cornell faculty as ‘new heroes’

Cornell Chronicle

The portraits are part of a series by Christopher Michel, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s inaugural artist-in-residence.

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Graduate student research

Student spotlight: Raul Armenta

Cornell University Graduate School

Raul Armenta, a doctoral student in sociology from Los Angeles, studies the intersection of education and the criminal legal system under the guidance of Bryan Sykes.

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Roger William Photography Dean’s Scholars at the 2025 Pinning Ceremony
Graduate student honors

Nearly 60 students recognized at pinning ceremony

Cornell University Graduate School

A&S-affiliated graduate students were among nearly 60 welcomed by the Graduate School as new Dean’s Scholars at an event to honor students selected for this distinction for academic excellence, leadership, and service.

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Sociology

Whose God goes on the classroom wall? Cornell expert on religious freedom

A&S Communications

Coordinated efforts across Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments "test whether American public schools belong equally to all families—or whether some families' faith gets privileged by law while others' gets diminished by the state.”

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Literatures in English

How fiction and film are shaping the Occupation narrative in France

A&S Communications

In two new books, Daniel R. Schwarz considers France and the Holocaust – and how literature and film can correct erroneous depictions of history.

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Cornell University file photo Howard Howland
Neurobiology and Behavior

Professor emeritus Howard Howland, expert on eyes, dies at 92

Cornell Chronicle

Howard Howland, Ph.D. ’68, a neurophysiologist who studied the eyes of humans and animals, died Oct. 26 in Ithaca. He was 92.

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Paul Treadwell/Cornell University Surabhi Bacchav '27 (l) and Thomas Jacobsen, University of Idaho, set up a up an AgXRP robot in summer 2025.
Engaged learning

Cornell showcases a decade of impact through new community-engaged learning video series

Cornell Chronicle

The David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement has released a new video series highlighting a decade of progress and impact in community-engaged learning across the university.

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FutureAtlas.com/Creative Commons license 2.0 Flags of east Asia
International politics

Relationship between China and Japan ‘on a knife’s edge,’ says Cornell expert

A&S Communications

Japan’s refusal to retract remarks about military intervention if China moved to seize Taiwan has left relations between the two countries the worst they've been in a decade, says Allen Carlson, associate professor of government.

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Diane Tessaglia-Hymes H. Sebastian Seung, professor of computer science and neuroscience at Princeton, showing a portion of the fruit fly connectome in the optic lobe as a featured speaker at the 2025 Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium.
Neurobiology & Behavior

Neurotech symposium explores how brain circuits drive behavior

Cornell Chronicle

The event was an example of Cornell’s interdisciplinary commitment to advancing the frontiers of neurotechnology.

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Nada Žgank Cécile McLorin Salvant at the 2025 Ljubljana Jazz Festival
Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series

Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant featured on Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series

A&S Communications

Salvant, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award winner, is an artist celebrated for bringing historical depth, dramatic flair, and exceptional musical insight to jazz standards and original works.

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Government

New course encourages students to embrace disagreement

A&S Communications

A new course being offered will give students the chance to consider some of the most polarizing issues in our world today.

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Photo by Nathan DeFiesta on Unsplash
Performing and media arts

A&S launches Cornell in Los Angeles semester study away

A&S Communications

The program will place students in Hollywood for a semester of coursework, networking, and cultural immersion.

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Physics

Light causes atomic layers to do the twist

Cornell Chronicle

Using a Cornell-built instrument and Cornell-built high-speed detector, a team of researchers captured atomically thin materials responding to light with a dynamic twisting motion.