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Sreang Hok/Cornell University Summer reading on the Arts Quad
Alumni

Your June 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include the latest from A&S faculty Ishion Hutchinson and Charlie Green, plus A&A alumni Chris Pavone '89 and Sarah Spain '02.

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Psychology

Emotion – not just action – helps brain define, divide events

Cornell Chronicle

Study participants who watched scenes from popular movies showed emotion plays a larger role than previously understood in establishing event boundaries that help structure attention and memory.

Book cover: Child of Light
Provided In "Child of Light," an experimental historical fiction set in 1890s Utica, Jesi Bender-Buell '07 tells the story of a young girl as she tries to understand her world through the interests of her parents: Spiritualism for Mama, electrical engineering for Papa.
Alumni

Why experimental art is more important than ever

Cornellians

When we focus on making our work marketable, it’s no longer the creative endeavor that our society so desperately needs, alumna Jesi Bender-Buell '07 writes in a Chime In column.

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Research support

SPROUT Awards cultivate early-stage engineering research

Cornell Chronicle

From designing a reversible male contraceptive to detecting life on distant ocean worlds, the latest Cornell Engineering SPROUT Awards are cultivating breakthroughs across medicine, space exploration, robotics and environmental sensing.

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Devin Flores/Cornell University Enslavers posted as many as a quarter-million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves. Ed Baptist is leading the public crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move, that has digitized tens of thousands of these advertisements in an open-source site accessible to the public.
History

Research at risk: Records of enslaved people seeking freedom

Cornell Chronicle

… started in 2021 and was slated to finish at the end of 2026. According to Baptist, the stop-work order eliminates a …

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Northrup Grumman An illustration of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope
Astronomy

Cornell astronomers win time on James Webb Space Telescope

A&S Communications

“It’s the cutting edge of what we can achieve, with better precisions and resolutions than other instruments.”

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Kathy Hovis Mehler, left, and Rosenberg, right
Alumni experiences

Reunion 2025: The view from five years out

A&S Communications

Members of the Class of 2020 remember their journeys at Cornell.

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Physics

Better basketball through theoretical physics?

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers are applying a theory about the movement of electrons to a much taller, human system – the National Basketball Association.

Alissa Worly Jerud ’08
Provided Alissa Worly Jerud ’08
Alumni

Why our attempts to avoid emotional discomfort often backfire

Cornellians

"As a clinical psychologist, I’ve learned that moments of anxiety can be golden opportunities to learn to tolerate distress," A&S psychology major Alissa Worly Jerud ’08 writes.

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Credit: Sheryl Sinkow/Provided Left to right: Charles Walcott PhD ’59; Holger Klinck, the John W. Fitzpatrick Director of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics; and K. Lisa Yang ’74 at the center’s advisory council meeting, where Yang honored Walcott with the establishment of the Charles Walcott Graduate Research Fellowship in Conservation Bioacoustics. Photo by Sheryl Sinkow.
Neurobiology and Behavior

New $1.5M graduate research fellowship honors former director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Chronicle

A new $1.5 million gift from philanthropist K. Lisa Yang ’74 has established the Charles Walcott Graduate Research Fellowship in Conservation Bioacoustics to fund graduate research at the Lab of Ornithology.

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Music

Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series announces 2025-26 Season

A&S Communications

… and Kyle Poole.  Garifuna Collective Friday, February 6, 2026, 7:30 p.m., Bailey Hall  The hybrid culture of the … a modern context.  Tigran Hamasyan Friday, February 27, 2026, 7:30 p.m., Bailey Hall  Described as a … late Chick Corea.  Stephen Hough, piano Friday, March 20, 2026, 7:30 p.m., Bailey Hall  Hough combines a distinguished …

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Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Gunpoets
Summer series

Cornell SCE offers free outdoor concerts, lectures this summer

Cornell Chronicle

In the 2025 Summer Events Series, A&S Dean Peter John Loewen will give a lecture on AI; and beloved alumna author Diane Ackerman, M.F.A. ’73, M.A. ’77, Ph.D. ’79, will talk about her research trips.

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University Jamila Walida Simon, MA ’10, standing, just completed her doctorate in global development.
Staff accomplishments

Staff graduates recognized for academic achievements

Cornell Chronicle

More than two dozen staff members who earned degrees at Cornell or other institutions this year while also working at the university were celebrated in a ceremony June 10.

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Takahiro Kyono/Creative Commons license 2.0 Brian Wilson in 2012 in The Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Reunion
Music

‘End of a hopeful era’: Cornell expert reflects on Wilson and Stone legacies

A&S Communications

The deaths of Brian Wilson, co-founder of The Beach Boys, and funk and soul pioneer Sly Stone, of Sly and the Family Stone, mark the end of a pivotal era in music, says professor Judith Peraino.

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Kathy Hovis From left, faculty members Alexandra Kleeman, Philip Milner and Talbot Andrews presented their work at the June 6 panel.
Reunion 2025

Professors address climate change from multiple disciplines

A&S Communications

The panel, during Reunion 2025, was called "Beyond the Apocalypse: New Narratives and Innovations for Climate Action."