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Anna Ho sitting at desk, pointing at computer screen with image of star exploding
Jason Koski, Cornell University Anna Ho
Astronomy

Cornell astronomer honored for achievement in observational research

A&S Communications

With the 2026 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, the American Astronomical Society recognizes Anna Y. Q. Ho’s pioneering investigations of extreme explosions powered by stellar death.

Book cover: National Liberation
History

Women in exile shaped South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement

Cornell Chronicle

Women played a major role in debates surrounding the fight against apartheid in South Africa, Rachel Sandwell writes in a new book, “National Liberation and the Political Life of Exile: Sex, Gender, and Nation in the Struggle against Apartheid.”

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Annie Spratt/Unsplash Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland
International politics

Europe has little leverage to push back if Trump moves to take Greenland

A&S Communications

A Cornell historian and military expert doubts a NATO military response to the US annexation of Greenland would not happen, Despite tough talk from European leaders.

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Cornell Athletics Derraugh coaching during the 2011–12 season
Alumni

'Remember they’re playing for the love of the game’

Cornellians

A former Big Red star himself, women’s ice hockey coach and A&S alum Doug Derraugh ’91 has led the squad to five ECAC championships.

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Rick Ryan/Cornell University Lead rigger Ed Foster guides the movement of the Prime-Cam support raft, a carefully choreographed step in preparing the telescope for shipment.
Astronomy

The people behind the telescope: How specialized expertise is supporting science at the edge of the universe

Cornell Chronicle

… and very large, with a vast number of parts working together.” Although FYST’s extreme operating conditions are … being fabricated all over the world,” Niemack said. “We are getting things from Germany and from vendors that nobody at …

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Cy Cyr/Golf Channel Mullins competing at the World Long Drive Championship in 2016
Alumni

Power play: Arts & Sciences alum is a long drive golfing champ

Cornellians

After competing in track and field for the Big Red, Troy Mullins ’09 parlayed her athleticism into success at smashing the ball.

Karola Meszaros
Mathematics

Mészáros elected to American Mathematical Society

A&S Communications

Mészáros’ research focuses on algebraic and geometric combinatorics.

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MD Mujahedul Islam

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Government

Illustration showing RNA Polymerase II interacting with Chromatin
Provided This cartoon illustrates how RNA polymerase generates torsional stress in DNA during transcription. Chromatin, composed of nucleosomes with DNA wrapped around histone proteins, buffers this stress, enabling the polymerase to transcribe through nucleosomes.
Physics

Unexpected allies: DNA packaging aids gene expression

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers discovered that DNA packaging structures called nucleosomes, which have been traditionally seen as roadblocks for gene expression, actually help reduce torsional stress in DNA strands and facilitate genetic information decoding.

a piece of fabric with a design on it
Ryan Young/Cornell University HelioSkin is a lightweight, stretchable architectural fabric that is aesthetically attractive and can wrap around complex shapes.
Cornell University

2025 Year in Review

Cornell Chronicle

In 2025, Cornell produced cutting-edge AI research, inaugurated a president and advanced agriculture and sustainability. The university’s faculty, staff, students and alumni made the world a better place, welcomed back two Nobel laureate alumni and conducted research that matters.

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Steve Johnson/Unsplash
Physics

AI gives scientists a boost, but at the cost of too many mediocre papers

Cornell Chronicle

A new study shows that using large language models like ChatGPT boosts paper production, especially for non-native English speakers, but the overall increase in AI-written papers is making it harder to separate the valuable contributions from the AI slop.

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Government

TikTok user long-term experience will ‘depend’ on regulators in new framework

A&S Communications

Tiktok has signed a deal to spin off its U.S. business, but it remains unclear how effectively the new framework will address the initial national security threat concerns, says government professor Sarah Kreps.

Book cover: Bukovina
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History

In Bukovina, European empires built new worlds out of inherited materials

Cornell Chronicle

The region never fit easily among its neighbors, as regimes including the Habsburg Empire and the Soviet Union tried to remake it in their image.

Record album cover: Songs in Flight
Cedille Records/Photo by Elliot Mandel Record album cover: Songs in Flight
History

‘Songs In Flight,’ inspired by Cornell-based project, earns Grammy nod

A&S Communications

Based on poems by A&S alumna Tsitsi Ella Jaji, M.A. ’06, Ph.D. ’08, the songs by Shawn Okpebholo bring to life individual stories preserved by the Cornell-based Freedom on the Move project.

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RephiLe water/Unsplash Cornell chemists have found a way to encapsulate a molecule’s quantum mechanical information so they can feed that – rather than simpler structural information – into ML algorithms, providing up to 100 times more accuracy than the current most popular method
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Quantum mechanical molecular ‘fingerprints’ solve machine learning mystery

A&S Communications

The new method can predict molecular properties with up to 100 times more accuracy than the current method.