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Roger William Photography for Cornell University. From left to right: Xuan Chen, Zachary Ulibarri, Sarah Gilbert, and Samantha Sanft. Not pictured: Alyssa Kaganer and Anusha Shankar.
Postdoctoral scholars

Six postdocs honored with achievement awards

Cornell University Graduate School

Cornell employs 790 postdoctoral scholars who are appointed across nearly 90 departments where they actively participate in the university’s research, teaching, and extension missions.

Aiono holding a copy of "the Decameron"

Student receives top honor for Boccaccio essay

A&S Communications

Grace Aiono ‘26 has been awarded this year’s Giuseppe Velli Prize by the American Boccaccio Association (ABA) for the best undergraduate student essay on the works of Giovanni Boccaccio.

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ideepakmathur/Wikimedia Commons Ahmedabad, site of India's first Heat Action Plan, a comprehensive extreme heat early warning and preparedness plan.
Global Cornell

Global center promises design solutions for warming world

Global Cornell

A Cornell-led project team – with Global Hubs partners in India, the U.K, Ghana and Singapore – has received a two-year $250,000 design grant from the National Science Foundation to bring more comfortable days and nights to homes everywhere.

Person standing in front of a poster showing outer space
Stella Ocker, Ph.D. ’23 won a Brinson Prize fellowship, which she began Sept. 1 at the California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California
Astronomy

Cornell astronomy to offer Brinson Prize

A&S Communications

The Brinson Prize supports postdoctoral scholars in carrying out novel research in observational cosmology.

The U.S. Senate chamber (blue carpet, yellow walls) with the Senators seated at their deks
Senate Photo Studio/public domain Class photo of the 111th United States Senate inside the chamber, 2010
Government

‘Age alone’ should not dominate the decision for older politicians to resign

A&S Communications

We need to recognize and remember the mark made by Dianne Feinstein says professor Elizabeth Sanders, but it’s also time for older politicians to begin considering the length of their careers.

Michelle Wang, next to a microscope and with dangling wires and equipment behind her
Robert Barker, Cornell University Michelle Wang
Physics

Physicist Michelle Wang named Biophysical Society Fellow

A&S Communications

Wang was chosen for “advancing our understanding of transcription, replication, and chromatin dynamics through the lens of DNA mechanics and topology.”

musicians playing their instruments on a stage, seated or standing behind music stands
Provided The Cornell University Wind Symphony performs "A Place That Is Yours" by Catherine Likhuta
Humanities

Cornell celebrates 15 years at the heart of CNY Humanities Corridor

A&S Communications

The corridor is a consortium of 11 universities and colleges endowed by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Neurobiology and Behavior

When needs compete, love trumps thirst

Cornell Chronicle

When a lonely and thirsty male zebra finch encountered a female, his thirst waned and he instead focused his attention on her, a shift reflected in the dopamine system.

Steve Salm
Alumni

Meet the alum behind some of music's biggest rights deals

Cornellians

Steve Salm ’93 is a founding partner at the firm that owns the catalogs of Genesis, KISS, Imagine Dragons, and much more.

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Wilhelm Gunkel/Unsplash
Molecular biology and genetics

NIH supports Tumbar lab skin stem cell studies

A&S Communications

Three related grants aim to understand how stem cells function to fuel normal tissue maintenance and to repair injuries in actively regenerative tissues.

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Alumni

Meet some of the (many!) Cornellians who’ve won the Nobel

Cornellians

From Hans Bethe to Toni Morrison, we offer a sampling of alums and profs who’ve earned one of the world’s highest accolades.

Jamila Michener
Government

Michener to direct new Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures

Cornell Chronicle

The center will connect and amplify the university’s research and scholarship around issues of racial injustice and inequality and its work to develop more just and equitable public policy.

A worm-shaped creature with long dark shapes inside and some round egg looking things at one end.
kdfj, GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 C. elegans as seen through a microscope.
Molecular Biology & Genetics

Racker Lecture examines ‘Sex and Death’ Oct. 5

A&S Communications

Lecturer Barbara Meyer has "made exciting discoveries regarding how disruptions in proper gene expression can have dramatic consequences in organism development and health as well as impact aging and lifespan,” said faculty host Prof. Richard Cerione.

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Office of Governor Tom Wolf/Creative Commons license 2.0 John Fetterman shown in March 2022
Psychology

Why those who believe John Fetterman has a body double are so sure about it

MSNBC

The difficulty he might have finding a body double means nothing to those convinced the real Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. (who is 6 feet, 8 inches tall and about 270 pounds) is somewhere in hiding, writes Gordon Pennycook.

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Alumni

Cheryl Engelhardt ’02 Is a rising star in new age music

Cornellians

Her latest album snagged a Grammy nomination — and she once scored a Cheerios commercial starring Grumpy Cat