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A huge pile of white styrofoam shipping boxes jumbled together. — Jonas Gerlach/ Unsplash

Sustainability

Light, oxygen turn waste plastics into useful benzoic acid

4/11/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The new reaction can even take place in a sunny window, as the researchers demonstrated in their experiments.

Two hands holding a cellphone and scrolling through a Twitter feed. — Marten Bjork/Unsplash

Government

Russian trolls tried to distract voters with music tweets in 2016

4/11/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The researchers' finding has implications for the 2022 midterm elections.

Faculty Honors

Musicologist and poet awarded Guggenheim fellowships

4/12/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Alejandro L. Madrid, professor and chair of music, and Valzhyna Mort, associate professor of literatures in English, were honored as fellows.

Student experiences

Ask our Ambassadors: What's the College Scholar Program?

4/13/2022 A&S Student Ambassador

The College Scholar Program allows students to pursue their own interdisciplinary major.

Student experiences

Ask our ambassadors: My favorite memories

4/25/2023 A&S Student Ambassador

I could yell, celebrate, and parade around campus with the rest of the crowd, because, in that moment, I realized that I was one of them: I was a Cornell student.

Unmanned aerial vehicle parked on a runway — John Schwab/US Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) at Beale Air Force Base, CA.

International relations

International OK shapes public perceptions of drone warfare

4/14/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Government department researchers find that armed drone strikes earn more public support and legitimacy when they have international approval from organizations such as the UN.

Alumni

Sgt. Scott Grantz ’99 Serves His Alma Mater on the CUPD

4/14/2022 Cornellians

The Ithaca native and Arts and Sciences grad embodies a community-based approach to public safety

Student experiences

Ask our Ambassadors: Finding Plato on the Arts Quad

4/24/2023 A&S Student Ambassador

It is within these halls, these classrooms, where I feel that I am benefitting from centuries of critical thought, deep questions and explorations into finding meaning in the human experience.

Scientists talk in a lab — Jason Koski/Cornell University Qihao Li, left, Geoff Coates, the Tisch University Professor of Chemistry and Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry, discuss hydrogen energy.

Clean energy

Cornell joins NY-led group to propose hydrogen energy hub

4/18/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemists and Cornell research-startups aim to propose a Northeast research hub to make hydrogen a viable, clean-energy alternative to carbon-based fuels.

Music

Concerto Competition winner to perform with Cornell Symphony Orchestra

4/19/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Nanor Seraydarian will perform Ernest Chausson’s “Poème” as a featured soloist alongside the Cornell Symphony Orchestra at Bailey Hall

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