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Chemistry and Physics

Light-activated micro device expands ‘green’ electrochemistry

1/9/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemists and nanofabrication experts have joined forces to create a 2 millimeter-wide, wireless, light-activated device to simplify electrochemistry for broad use.

Barry Adams — Provided Barry Adams

Barry Adams, former vice provost and literature scholar, dies at 89

1/9/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Barry Banfield Adams, professor of literatures of English emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Dec. 31 at home in Brooktondale, New York. He was 89.

Wall art showing the faces of Mary Beth Norton, Isabel Hull and Margaret Washington above a drawing of McGraw Hall. — Provided Artwork by Prof. Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik depicting first three women hired by the Department of History and McGraw Hall.

History

History department honors first women hired

1/13/2025 A&S Communications

The centerpiece is a wall-size homage to three of the first women hired and McGraw itself, drawn by Prof. Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik.

Image of Heri Purwanto

Heri Purwanto

Visiting Lecturer
Music

A microscope image: Dark green background spotted with pink — Weill Cornell Medicine Lipid accumulation in a murine model of fatty liver disease, visualized by color-enhanced lipid droplets (pink) in liver tissue (green). Superimposed chemical structure of a newly discovered bile acid conjugate.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Diet, microbes: new pathway controlling levels of body fat, cholesterol

1/14/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Beneficial gut microbes and the body work together to fine-tune fat metabolism and cholesterol levels, according to a new preclinical study by investigators from Weill Cornell Medicine and the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell’s Ithaca campus.

Nianpo Su — Provided Nainpo Su

Graduate student research

Student spotlight: Nianpo Su

1/14/2025 Cornell University Graduate School

Nianpo Su, doctoral candidate in linguistics, studies how syntactic principles determine the structure of sentences in human languages.

Black and white historic photo of Ezra Cornell, frowning and holding a pen. — Rare and Manuscript Collections/Cornell University Ezra Cornell in 1868

Alumni

‘Good health, tempered courage, and sound common sense’

1/15/2025 Cornellians

Those are the gifts that fate gave Ezra Cornell, per one historian. Here’s a look at his life—from humble beginnings to great wealth.

Illustation showing a box labeled "vote" decorated with a light bulb and a trophy. A hand is placing a square into a slot in the box — Credit: Seung Yeon Kim/Cornell University

Government

Good intentions pave incumbents’ road to re-election

1/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Voters care if they’re better off than before the last election — but also about incumbent politicians’ intentions, Cornell research finds.

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Nikki Fortier

Visiting Lecturer
Philosophy

People playing large drums, joyfully — Provided YAMATO The Drummers of Japan

Cornell Concert Series

YAMATO The Drummers of Japan featured on Cornell Concert Series February 2

1/16/2025 A&S Communications

Described as the “epitome of the Japanese spirit,” Yamato will bright their show “Hito no Chikara”, The Power of Human Strength to Baily Hall.