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Ryan Young/Cornell University Nobel-winning economist Claudia Goldin '67 delivered the 2025 George Staller Lecture to a packed audience in Rockefeller Hall’s Schwartz Auditorium on Sept. 25.
Economics

Nobel winner says US women won on rights, but benefits lag

Cornell Chronicle

Claudia Goldin '67 used data to paint a picture of the "tremendous" progress of the U.S. women’s movement, as well as the forces that have prevented women from reaping the benefits of their rights.

A stage bathed in green light: several people play on keyboard instruments, including standing sythesizers, pianos, and an organ
Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Keyboard Energies concert, spring 2025
Music

‘The Keyboards Strike Back’: concert sequel set for Oct. 9

A&S Communications

Cornell faculty and graduate students unleash a genre-bending program across seventeen keyboard instruments, from the delicate whisper of the clavichord to the analog punch of the Roland Juno-60.

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Lindsay France/Cornell University
Alumni authors

Your September 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include the latest by a National Book Award winner and a classical history of Jewish resistance to Rome.

Ibrahim Gemeah
Provided Ibrahim Gemeah, Ph.D. '23
Alumni

Alum spotlight: Ibrahim Gemeah, Ph.D. ’23

Cornell University Graduate School

Ibrahim Gemeah, Ph.D. ’23, is an alumnus of the Near Eastern studies doctoral program with a focus on the history of the modern Middle East. He is now an assistant professor of modern Middle East and North African history in the department of Middle Eastern languages and cultures at Indiana University.

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Monti Wilkins, left, director of Morrison Hall, and Jesse Wright, an artist and Ithaca High School teacher, talk after a section of tableaux dedicated to Toni Morrison was installed in Morrison Hall. Hanging near an image of Morrison, this painting on wood panels features Ithaca High senior London Smith, whose blue sunglasses reference Morrison’s novel, “The Bluest Eye.”
Community engagement

Teens’ portraits celebrate Toni Morrison as community-builder

Cornell Chronicle

High schoolers from Ithaca and Brooklyn produced the artworks depicting Morrison and a local student, a collaboration that promises to introduce Morrison's work to new generations of New Yorkers.

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Bonnie Teece

Assistant Research Professor
Astronomy, CCAPS

Jack Szostak
Molecular biology and genetics

Nobel-winning biochemist to speak on the origins of life

Cornell Chronicle

Jack Szostak, Ph.D. ’77, will return to campus to give the 2025 Ef Racker Lecture on Oct. 9.

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Ryan Young/Cornell University Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Public policy

Brooks and A&S partner on new option for public policy major

A&S Communications

Students in the major will be admitted into the College of Arts & Sciences and take courses in both Brooks and A&S.

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Adrian Diaz-Sieckel/ Unsplash
Religion

#RaptureTok and the history of end-times beliefs: Cornell religion expert

A&S Communications

Apocalyptic predictions are "far from new, but social media has whipped up a frenzy," says Cornell religion expert Kim Haines-Eitzen.

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Pete Souza/White House Jimmy Kimmel Live! video taping in 2015
Philosophy

Satire under siege: Cornell humor expert on ‘Kimmel’ comeback

A&S Communications

“Political leaders – of all stripes – hate two things: unfettered speech and being mocked. With Jimmy Kimmel, the administration got a chance to squelch both."

Sally Satel
Provided Sally Satel
Freedom and Free Societies

Talk explores medicine and social justice activism Oct. 6

A&S Communications

The role social justice advocacy should play in medicine will be examined by Sally Satel, a practicing psychiatrist and lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, in her talk, “Medicine in the Age of Social Justice Activism.”

Jonathan Culler
Literary scholarship

Culler receives 2026 Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award

A&S Communications

A specialist in literary and cultural theory and French literature of the 19th century, Culler will receive the award in June 2026 during the International Society for the Study of Narrative conference in Denmark.

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Psychology

Safety first: Babies heighten adults’ perception of threats

Cornell Chronicle

In a threatening situation, the world looks more dangerous when caring for an infant, finds new research that used a virtual baby to explore parenting dynamics.

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Cornell University file photo Students at work in a Cornell physics lab in early 2020.
Physics

Revitalizing introductory physics labs with NSF support

Cornell Chronicle

Through The Introductory Physics Lab Institute, professor Natasha Holmes shares best practices in physics labs.

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John Benning

Assistant Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology