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Cars speed down a six-lane road through a city — Oleksandr Zhabin/Unsplash Kyiv, Ukraine

International politics

Even if a ‘peace’ deal is reached, Russia won’t give up on Ukraine

4/30/2025 A&S Communications

Cornell experts Bryn Rosenfeld and David Silbey comment on a 72-hour ceasefire in Ukraine starting May 8, declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin to mark the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II.

Physics

Don Hartill, longtime physics professor, Lansing mayor, dies at 86

4/30/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Donald Hartill, a professor of physics emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences and a driving force behind decades of experimental research in particle physics, died on April 16. He was 86.

Lake in autumn — John Wisniewski/Creative commons license 2.0 Massapequa Lake, Massapequa, New York

History

‘Self-indigenizers’ using executive bully pulpit in school mascot fight

4/30/2025 A&S Communications

The Long Island community of Massapequa is getting support from President Donald Trump for refusing to change its school mascot from Native American imagery, despite a state mandate, a fascinating example of self-indigenization says historian Jon Parmenter

Nicolas van de Walle speaking, hands moving, wearing glasses and a jacket — Cornell University File Photo Nicolas van de Walle

Government

Conference on African political economy honors van de Walle

4/30/2025 A&S Communications

“Politics, Markets, and Governance in Africa: A conference in honor of Nicolas van de Walle,” set for May 8-9, will focus on the core themes of African political economy, regimes, and modes of electoral and social participation and contestation.

Literatures in English

Poet Ishion Hutchinson tilts into expansive essay writing

4/30/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Award-winning poet Ishion Hutchinson is making his prose debut with his first essay collection, which brings together two decades’ worth of probing reflections on his childhood in Jamaica, the country’s cultural and colonial history and his maturation as a writer.

Alumni

Exploring adolescence and young adulthood, one episode at a time

5/1/2025 Cornellians

Through shows like ‘XO, Kitty,’ screenwriter Jessica O’Toole ’94 relishes highlighting the ‘inherent stakes and drama’ of youth.

Building with a cross on top, blue ksy — Pedro Honn/Unsplash

Religion

Catholic charter school matter ‘raises profound questions about equal access’

4/30/2025 A&S Communications

The Supreme Court's decision in the matter of Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond will represent a critical test of the separation between church and state in public education, says Landon Schnabel, associate professor of sociology.

Graduate student research

Student spotlight: Haowen Zheng

5/1/2025 Cornell University Graduate School

Haowen Zheng, a doctoral candidate in sociology from Zibo, China, now studies why people move long distances within a country and how those moves shape their lives.

Glass shelves in wooden cases holding pieces of pottery — Alison Rittershaus/Provided An Amazonian headdress is displayed with two cases of artifacts in the Anthropology and CIAMS Collections

Anthropology

Cornell anthropology opens Collaboratory May 14

5/1/2025 A&S Communications

The new Anthropology Collaboratory gathers many of the university’s anthropology collections and laboratories together in one place in Olin Library.

Person in blue shirt stands in front of complicated silver equipment — Chris Kitchen Manipulating the properties of atomic material helps Paul Malinowski understand the fundamental physics of how different quantum phases develop and are related to each other.

Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow honored for outstanding achievement in physics

5/1/2025 A&S Communications

Paul Malinowski received the 2025 Martin and Beate Block Winter Award from the Aspen Center for Physics.

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