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Illustration of underwater scene with three faculty head shots superimposed on it — Provided The "Teaching About Climate Change: Art, Action, and Reflection" event on Wed. Jan. 28, a collaboration between the Center for Teaching Innovation and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, will include a faculty panel, workshop, and tour of “Naples: Course of Empire,” the new Alexis Rockman exhibit that opens Jan. 20 at the Johnson Museum.

Teaching innovation

Faculty event to highlight how teaching about climate change can move beyond discourse and despair

1/21/2026 Cornell Chronicle

On Jan. 28, the Center for Teaching Innovation and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will co-host “Teaching About Climate Change: Art, Action and Reflection,” a faculty panel, teaching workshop and exhibit tour exploring how instructors can engage the humanities, climate change and community in their teaching.

person reading on a bench in a large, sunny, modern room — Cornell University file photo

Alumni authors

Your January 2026 reads

1/20/2026 Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include poetry, an anthropologist’s memoir, and a chronicle of the Nazi’s massive looting of European artworks.

Book cover: The Oak and the Larch — Provided The Oak and the Larch

Comparative literature

Recounting Russia’s history through its forests

1/20/2026 Cornell Chronicle

The fate of Russia’s forests will affect the whole world, according to a new book by a Cornell researcher.

Moral psychology

Doris wins Gittler Award for contributions to social psychology and ethics

1/16/2026 A&S Communications

A leading proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology exploring questions of character, virtue and agency, John Doris writes about a movement to inform moral philosophy with psychological research, as well as the other way around.

Overlooking a college campus under a yellow sky at dawn

Sciences

$1.5M grant boosts postdoctoral research across 4 colleges

1/15/2026 Cornell Chronicle

In 2026, the from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will begin funding 10 two-year postdoctoral appointments including three in astronomy, chemistry and physics in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Ryan Young/Cornell University Ambre Dromgoole

Africana studies

How music galvanized the fight for civil rights

1/15/2026 Cornell Chronicle

Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches tapped into a Black musical tradition that animated the Civil Rights Movement, says Ambre Dromgoole, assistant professor of Africana religions and music.

Colorful interior of a chapel with a vaulted ceiling; people sit in the pews facing a person speaking at the front — Noël Heaney/Cornell University A “Soup & Hope” event from 2024

Cornell history

In Praise of Sage Chapel, East Hill’s beloved house of worship

1/15/2026 Cornellians

Built in an era when the University was under fire for being nonsectarian, it offers respite from a bustling campus.

Anson Teague Wigner/Provided Mendi and Keith Obadike

Performing and Media Arts

Artist team Mendi + Keith Obadike named USA Fellows

1/15/2026 A&S Communications

The Obadikes have exhibited and performed their interdisciplinary work at The New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Their projects include four books, two albums, and a series of large-scale public sound artworks.

Sanae Takaichi in dark suit jacket sits at a table with microphones between two men, and more men sitting in the room behind her — Japan's Cabinet Public Affairs Office, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi holds a meeting of the Population Strategy Headquarters

History

Tensions with China give Japanese PM an opening for snap elections

1/14/2026 A&S Communications

Prof. Kristin Roebuck comments on the plans of Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to dissolve parliament next week and call a snap election.

Isaac Vazquez/Provided Danielle Russo in her studio at Yaddo

Performing and Media Arts

Yaddo residency shapes long-term dance research

1/14/2026 A&S Communications

During her Yaddo residency, Danielle Russo developed a dance piece, enriching the work by drawing on ideas of ritual movement, personal memories and family history, and more.

Artist's illustration of the Pandora spacecraft with an exoplanet and two stars in the background — NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab Artist’s concept of NASA’s Pandora mission, which will help scientists untangle the signals from exoplanets’ atmospheres – worlds beyond our solar system – and their stars.

Astronomy

Pandora satellite launches for exoplanet observation

1/13/2026 A&S Communications

Tasked with studying exoplanet systems around small stars, the refrigerator-sized satellite is the first in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers program – small-scale missions designed to train early-career scientists, including Trevor Foote, Ph.D. ’24, a former member of the research group led by faculty member Nikole Lewis.

Provided Scott Lincicome

Freedom and Free Societies

Trade expert discusses misconceptions about trade Jan. 29

1/12/2026 A&S Communications

Scott Lincicome will talk about imports, tariffs and globalization during his talk, “What You Think You Know About Trade is Probably Wrong."

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