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Nine people standing in a grassy area
Provided The 2025 Postdoc Achievement Award recipients, left to right: Heather Kim, Jennifer Grauer, Adam Beard, Shawna Cook, Inbal Ravreby, Bryan MacNeill, Lucinda Li, Bailey Flynn, and Bec (Rebecca) Schmitt.
Postgraduate awards

Nine postdocs honored with achievement awards

Cornell University Graduate School

Inbal Ravreby, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in psychology, received an Achievement Award for Excellence in Leadership.

Members of an orchestra playing on a stage
Casey Martin Cornell Symphony Orchestra
Live performance

Music Oct. 2-5: Homecoming concerts and historical keyboards

A&S Communications

Cornell orchestras, vocal ensembles and the Center for Historical Keyboards plan performances.

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Provided Deskaheh
History of Art and Visual Studies

‘Defending Haudenosaunee Sovereignty’ exhibit opens Sept. 24

A&S Communications

The outdoor exhibit celebrates the centenary of Deskaheh Levi General’s 1923 intervention on behalf of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy at the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Book cover: Unfiltered Regard for China
Provided
History

Politics gets personal for China scholar

Cornell Chronicle

Historian Peidong Sun began her new book “Unfiltered Regard for China: French Perspectives from Mao to Xi” amid profound personal upheaval: An exit ban from China and a move to France.

Scott Emr
Molecular biology and genetics

Emr wins the World Laureate Association Prize

Cornell Chronicle

The award is for breakthrough discoveries in the cellular mechanisms of receptor membrane protein transport and degradation.

Two people wearing headphones and recording equipment under a neon sign: Pitch your podcast here
Provided Laura and Shelby Holland at an iHeartRadio pitch event
Alumni

Siblings turn their love for dishing on media into a podcast

Cornellians

Tune in to the recent grads behind Sisters Who Watch—which covers everything from reality TV to the Super Bowl and beyond: A&S graduate Shelby Holland '18 and her sister Laura Holland ’22.

Three people in farm work boots together under palm trees
Provided With support from Cornell Atkinson, students conducted fieldwork at an experimental cattle ranch in Florida, studying how plant structures influence methane transport and how deep soil layers affect methane production.
Biology

Student summer research lays path for future scientists

Cornell Chronicle

With support from Cornell Atkinson, graduate students mentored undergraduates to conduct summer research on methane mitigation, food security and climate forecasting.

fruit fly
Molecular biology and genetics

Surprising find reveals asymmetry in identical-looking fruit fly organs

Cornell Chronicle

A new study provides an example of asymmetry, a pattern found throughout biology where a pair of organs or appendages that mirror each other have different proportions and may have different functions.

Person posing in a lab
Buzz Barstow Nozomi Ando
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Nozomi Ando named to Schmidt Polymaths cohort

Cornell Chronicle

Members of the cohort of eight scientists and engineers will each receive up to $2.5 million over five years.

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Provided
International studies

Einaudi welcomes SWANA Program

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

The Einaudi Center welcomes the Southwest Asia and North Africa Program and four new program directors this fall.

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Provided As part of her Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Phoebe Dailey Wagner, M.P.S. ’24, visited Niraj Bahugunaji, whose family has lived in their home near the temple grounds of Lakha Mandal in India for more than 300 years.
Research at Risk

Research at risk: Cultural fluency and critical language expertise

Cornell Chronicle

The federal government ended a program that has funded Cornell's Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program for decades.

hundreds of black and white portrait photos on a wall leading up to a light grey dome
Eelco Böhtlingk/Unsplash Memorial at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Israel. December 2018
Jewish Studies Program

Holocaust testimony is AI litmus test, and it fails

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell historian argues that human historians are vital to capture the emotional and moral complexity behind world events.

Two people laughing together
Lindsay France/Cornell University Dryden (right) and Bradley at their talk, “Lives on the Run: Sports, Service, and Leadership.”
Alumni

'Thoughtful, gracious and humble': Remembering Ken Dryden '69

Cornellians

The co-author of Forever Faithful reminisces about the star goalie as a player, a writer, a sports-safety activist, and a man.

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Courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Morse at a ribbon-cutting event for the publication’s new offices in downtown Atlanta.
Distinguished Visiting Journalist

'I love print, but I love journalism even more': Meet Andrew Morse '96

Cornellians

A conversation with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution publisher, former Daily Sun editor, and past Distinguish Visiting Journalist in A&S, whose newspaper will soon be digital-only.

Grassy hill with a road leading up it: Scene from Taiwan
Sam Chang/Unsplash A road in Taiwan
Alumni

18 Cornellians receive Fulbright awards

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell's 2025–26 Fulbrighters, including several A&S alumni and students, will conduct research, study and teach English in Canada, France, Honduras, India, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Norway and Taiwan. Most will be on site by October.