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Fossiles to fortepianos: The Hill's 'mini-museums' and collections

The next time you visit Ithaca, check out exhibits on Chimes history, astronomical instruments, historical keyboards and so much more

Cornell Cinema unveils diverse, collaboration-driven spring lineup

From midcentury melodramas to speculative visions of technology and the human body—and even a French coming of age story about crafting world class cheese—Cornell Cinema’s spring season offers a varied plate.

Threats to Fed independence already taking an economic toll

While market movements have been modest so far, they signal declining trust in the ability or willingness of future FOMC members to achieve the Fed's inflation objectives, says Cornell economist Ryan Chahrour.

Discovery challenges assumptions about the structure of language

We can improvise new sentences so readily, language scientists believe, because we have acquired mental representations of the patterns of language that allow us to combine words into sentences.

On Jan. 28, the Center for Teaching Innovation and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will co-host “Teaching About Climate Change: Art, Action and Reflection,” a faculty panel, teaching workshop and exhibit tour exploring how instructors can engage the humanities, climate change and community in their teaching.

AI chip exports bill an “attempt to reclaim congressional agency”

Prof. Sarah Kreps comments on proposed legislation giving Congress power over artificial intelligence chip exports.

Your January 2026 reads

This month’s featured titles include poetry, an anthropologist’s memoir, and a chronicle of the Nazi’s massive looting of European artworks.

Recounting Russia’s history through its forests

The fate of Russia’s forests will affect the whole world, according to a new book from a Cornell researcher who has spent years studying the forest and its significance in Russian history and culture.

Doris wins Gittler Award for contributions to social psychology and ethics

A leading proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology exploring questions of character, virtue and agency, John Doris writes about a movement to inform moral philosophy with psychological research, as well as the other way around.

Artist team Mendi + Keith Obadike named USA Fellows

The Obadikes have exhibited and performed their interdisciplinary work at The New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Their projects include four books, two albums, and a series of large-scale public sound artworks.

In Praise of Sage Chapel, East Hill’s beloved house of worship

Built in an era when the University was under fire for being nonsectarian, it offers respite from a bustling campus.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches tapped into a Black musical tradition that animated the Civil Rights Movement, says Ambre Dromgoole, assistant professor of Africana religions and music.

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Yaddo residency shapes long-term dance research

During her Yaddo residency, Danielle Russo developed a dance piece, enriching the work by drawing on ideas of ritual movement, personal memories and family history, and more.

Tensions with China give Japanese PM an opening for snap elections

Prof. Kristin Roebuck comments on the plans of Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to dissolve parliament next week and call a snap election.

Pandora satellite launches for exoplanet observation

Tasked with studying exoplanet systems around small stars, the refrigerator-sized satellite is the first in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers program – small-scale missions designed to train early-career scientists, including Trevor Foote, Ph.D. ’24, a former member of the research group led by faculty member Nikole Lewis.

Trade expert discusses misconceptions about trade Jan. 29

Scott Lincicome will talk about imports, tariffs and globalization during his talk, “What You Think You Know About Trade is Probably Wrong."

Cornell astronomer honored for achievement in observational research

With the 2026 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, the American Astronomical Society recognizes Anna Y. Q. Ho’s pioneering investigations of extreme explosions powered by stellar death.

Women in exile shaped South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement

Women played a major role in debates surrounding the fight against apartheid in South Africa, Rachel Sandwell writes in a new book, “National Liberation and the Political Life of Exile: Sex, Gender, and Nation in the Struggle against Apartheid.”

Europe has little leverage to push back if Trump moves to take Greenland

A Cornell historian and military expert doubts a NATO military response to the US annexation of Greenland would not happen, Despite tough talk from European leaders.

'Remember they’re playing for the love of the game’

A former Big Red star himself, women’s ice hockey coach and A&S alum Doug Derraugh ’91 has led the squad to five ECAC championships.

The people behind the telescope: How specialized expertise is supporting science at the edge of the universe

Behind a world-leading telescope bound for Chile is a team of engineers, machinists, electronics specialists and riggers at Cornell. Meet the specialized staff whose expertise is helping push cosmology to new frontiers.

Power play: Arts & �鶹��Ƶ alum is a long drive golfing champ

After competing in track and field for the Big Red, Troy Mullins ’09 parlayed her athleticism into success at smashing the ball.

Mészáros elected to American Mathematical Society

Mészáros’ research focuses on algebraic and geometric combinatorics.

In 2025, Cornell produced cutting-edge AI research, inaugurated a president and advanced agriculture and sustainability. The university’s faculty, staff, students and alumni made the world a better place, welcomed back two Nobel laureate alumni and conducted research that matters.

Researchers discovered that DNA packaging structures called nucleosomes, which have been traditionally seen as roadblocks for gene expression, actually help reduce torsional stress in DNA strands and facilitate genetic information decoding.

TikTok user long-term experience will ‘depend’ on regulators in new framework

Tiktok has signed a deal to spin off its U.S. business, but it remains unclear how effectively the new framework will address the initial national security threat concerns, says government professor Sarah Kreps.

A new study shows that using large language models like ChatGPT boosts paper production, especially for non-native English speakers, but the overall increase in AI-written papers is making it harder to separate the valuable contributions from the AI slop.

‘Songs In Flight,’ inspired by Cornell-based project, earns Grammy nod

Based on poems by A&S alumna Tsitsi Ella Jaji, M.A. ’06, Ph.D. ’08, the songs by Shawn Okpebholo bring to life individual stories preserved by the Cornell-based Freedom on the Move project.

In Bukovina, European empires built new worlds out of inherited materials

The region never fit easily among its neighbors, as regimes including the Habsburg Empire and the Soviet Union tried to remake it in their image.

Quantum mechanical molecular ‘fingerprints’ solve machine learning mystery

The new method can predict molecular properties with up to 100 times more accuracy than the current method.

Astronomer paints vivid history of Arecibo Observatory

In a new book, Donald Campbell, Ph.D. ’71, professor emeritus of astronomy, recounts the history of Arecibo from construction to its last days under Cornell’s management in 2011.

When postdoctoral researcher Matthew Zipple releases lab mice into a large, enclosed field just off Cornell’s campus, something remarkable happens.

The book shows how patterns of psycho-social stress combined with modernity’s pressures can influence psychiatric practice.

From better sleep to stronger communities: The benefits of gratitude

Gratitude not only makes you feel good, but it helps you live up to your best self and be a better member of society, psychology professor Thomas Gilovich has found.

Researchers are plumbing the depths of the largest and deepest of New York’s Finger Lakes to explain the source of its famous booming sounds.

Celebrating the journey with our December A&S grads

December graduates walk the stage this month, so we sat down for a talk with three A&S grads who’ve taken different pathways through Cornell.

Your December 2025 reads

This month’s featured titles include fiction from A&S alum Thomas Pynchon ’59, an award-winning poetry collection and a study of a small town.

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The mice could remember new experiences that would normally be forgotten – a finding with important implications for treating Alzheimer’s disease.

Cake-pan telescope searches the sky for fast radio bursts

One of the world's smallest telescopes, it is part of a series of eight terminals installed around the globe.

Undergrads launch magazine featuring in-depth stories

A new student-run magazine focuses on long-form journalism that reflects the culture of Cornell and Ithaca.

At age 90, a singer, collector, and scholar of folk music goes digital

After a long career onstage and off, Ellen Stekert ’57 is focused on preservation—releasing songs from her vast archive on Bandcamp.

Campana wins MLA’s Scaglione Prize for book on Japanese poetry

“Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media" is study of work by poets who push the genre in unexpected directions.

Domestic politics driving Thailand-Cambodia border tensions says Cornell Southeast Asia expert

Thailand and Cambodia have long had fraught relations, professor Tom Pepinsky says after Thailand’s military launched air strikes along the Thailand-Cambodia border.

Workshop, talk focused on applying lessons learned from COVID

Scholars converged at Cornell to talk about lessons policymakers and elected officials could glean from their research into the COVID pandemic to help deal with the next public health emergency.

Cornell-China trip celebrates 20 years of Levinson Program

Leaders celebrated the Levinson Program and joined other Cornell delegates at the Cornell-China Forum.

Electrons stay put in layers of mismatched ‘quantum Legos’

Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go – or don’t go – in certain layered materials.

The Cornell Center for Social �鶹��Ƶ offers multiple grants to help Cornell faculty maximize their research impact. These awards help seed ambitious projects and provide support to teams of faculty applying to major external funding and collaboration opportunities.

With a 2024-2025 Innovative Teaching & Learning Grant, A&S professors collaborated with others to develope an AI tool to foster student metacognitive skills around teamwork in STEM classes.

Chile latest test case in South America’s far right shift

“Chile's vibrant democracy faces a new challenge in a highly polarized second-round presidential election" Dec. 14, says Ken Roberts, professor of government.

Scientists have outlined exactly how embryonic stem cells protect other cells from the effects of oxidative stress, thus preventing cellular aging.

‘Households in Context’ wins Wiseman Book Award

Based on a 2018 conference co-organized by Caitie Barrett, professor of classics, and Jennifer Carrington, Ph.D. ’19, the book focuses on houses and households during a period when Egypt was ruled by Greeks and then by Romans.

Is Silicon Valley driving Trump’s policy on Honduras?

Trump’s interest in Honduras is more about U.S. business interests, than democracy, says professor Raymond Craib, a historian of modern Latin America.

Spaceflight-tested menstrual cup offers choice on long missions

To equip astronauts with health choices for future missions, a Cornell postdoctoral fellow is leading research with AstroCup, a group that recently tested two menstrual cups in spaceflight as payload on an uncrewed rocket flight.

Cornell Navy ROTC midshipman earns top honor

Kylie Williamson ’26 has been named Navy/Marines Student of the Year by Navy Federal Credit Union, a top honor in the Reserve Officers Training Corps system. Williamson is the first Cornell student to win the award.

New grant funding will support eight research projects seeking to reduce AI’s energy use and integrate AI in environmental research.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers determined that organic residues of plant oils are poorly preserved in calcareous soils from the Mediterranean, leading decades of archaeologists to likely misidentify olive oil in ceramic artifacts.

As higher ed looks to the future, it's vital to understand the past

Praveen Sethupathy ’03, an A&S computer sciences alum who co-chairs a faculty task force exploring Cornell’s role in a changing educational, research, and social landscape, serves as co-chair of the Committee on the Future of the American University, a group of 18 faculty appointed by the provost to explore how Cornell can evolve to best serve future generations while pursuing its core mission of education, scholarship, public impact, and community engagement.

Your November 2025 reads

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Talk examines Civil Rights Act’s unintended consequences

Legal scholar Gail Heriot will describe a chain of unintended consequences of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 in her talk "Why We Walk on Eggshells," Dec. 8.

Professor emerita Stephanie Vaughn, ‘writer’s writer,’ dies at 81

Vaughn taught creative writing and literature at Cornell for 39 years, retiring in 2022 as professor of literatures in English emerita.

Career Development targets resources for students in tech fields

Tech students need to target specific organizations that match their interests, skills and values.

How fiction and film are shaping the Occupation narrative in France

In two new books, Daniel R. Schwarz considers France and the Holocaust – and how literature and film can correct erroneous depictions of history.

Nexus Scholar alumni profile: Jacqueline Allen ’23

"I got a taste of what neuroscience research is really like."

Nexus Scholar alumni profile: Nicole Hao ’24, MEng ’25

“Nexus, to me, was also a professional development experience."

Nexus Scholar alumni profile: Ricco Venterea ’24

"Nexus Scholars was the first time where the only thing I had to worry about was research."

Nexus Scholar alumni profile: Nnenna Ochuru ’25

"I want to further study the politicalization of education."

Nexus Scholar alumni profile: Rachel Craig ’24

"I had the opportunity to present what was exciting to me, and what I learned.”

Student spotlight: Raul Armenta

Raul Armenta, a doctoral student in sociology from Los Angeles, studies the intersection of education and the criminal legal system under the guidance of Bryan Sykes.

U.S.-Russia peace plan should be ‘non-starter’ for Ukraine

The leaked peace initiative, which would allegedly require Kyiv to surrender territory and significantly reduce the size of its army and some types of weaponry, is largely an attempt to put pressure on Zelensky, says David Silbey.

Whose God goes on the classroom wall? Cornell expert on religious freedom

Coordinated efforts across Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments "test whether American public schools belong equally to all families—or whether some families' faith gets privileged by law while others' gets diminished by the state.”

Nearly 60 students recognized at pinning ceremony

A&S-affiliated graduate students were among nearly 60 welcomed by the Graduate School as new Dean’s Scholars at an event to honor students selected for this distinction for academic excellence, leadership, and service.

Portraits honor 8 Cornell faculty as ‘new heroes’

The portraits are part of a series by Christopher Michel, the National Academies of �鶹��Ƶ, Engineering and Medicine’s inaugural artist-in-residence.

Professor emeritus Howard Howland, expert on eyes, dies at 92

Howard Howland, Ph.D. ’68, a neurophysiologist who studied the eyes of humans and animals, died Oct. 26 in Ithaca. He was 92.

Nexus Scholar alumni profile: Neel Mehta '23

"The skills that you pick up in the lab are always going to stay with you."

Relationship between China and Japan ‘on a knife’s edge,’ says Cornell expert

Japan’s refusal to retract remarks about military intervention if China moved to seize Taiwan has left relations between the two countries the worst they've been in a decade, says Allen Carlson, associate professor of government.

The David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement has released a new video series highlighting a decade of progress and impact in community-engaged learning across the university.

The event was an example of Cornell’s interdisciplinary commitment to advancing the frontiers of neurotechnology.

Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant featured on Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series

Salvant, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award winner, is an artist celebrated for bringing historical depth, dramatic flair, and exceptional musical insight to jazz standards and original works.

New course encourages students to embrace disagreement

A new course being offered will give students the chance to consider some of the most polarizing issues in our world today.

Using a Cornell-built instrument and Cornell-built high-speed detector, a team of researchers captured atomically thin materials responding to light with a dynamic twisting motion.

Americans broadly agree that universities should engage in a range of societal issues beyond their core education and research missions.

A&S launches Cornell in Los Angeles semester study away

The program will place students in Hollywood for a semester of coursework, networking, and cultural immersion.

‘National hero’ honor for Suharto speaks to enduring authoritarian influence in Indonesia

President Prabowo’s decision to confer the title underscores how Suharto’s legacy continues to shape Indonesian politics today, says a Cornell government professor who studies political and economic systems in Southeast Asia.

Translation offers English readers passage to satirical ‘Island of Hermaphrodites’

The novel, published anonymously in 1605, is "a very funny critique of court life that resonates for anyone dealing with very hierarchical institutions in which the exercise of power is often inscrutable and seemingly random,” says professor Kathleen Perry Long.

Physicist John Reppy wins Buckley Prize

Reppy was recognized along with David Bishop, Ph.D. ’78, for "groundbreaking experiments" they did on helium 50 years ago.

How to spot life in the clouds on other worlds

Cornell researchers have created the first reflectance spectra – a color-coded key – of microorganisms that live in the clouds floating above Earth’s surface.

Chemist Geoffrey Coates wins Benjamin Franklin Medal

Coates is being recognized “for transformative work at the interface of chemical catalyst design and polymer science.”

Building university cultures of open inquiry: Nov. 18 talk

John Tomasi, the inaugural president of Heterodox Academy, will speak on “The University at a Crossroads – and How We Can Build Cultures of Open Inquiry” as part of a series of events organized by the Provost’s Committee on the Future of the American University.

The spread of dubious headlines on social media isn’t just a right-wing thing – it's a social media thing, according to new research from psychology professor David Rand ’04.

Combining humanities and tech for research gains

An interdisciplinary project is sparking collaborations among those interested in digital approaches to the study of history, languages and culture.

Commemorating composer, pianist, pedagogue Louise Farrenc Nov. 14-15

The two-day event features performances of Farrenc’s chamber music on historical instruments, a reimagining of the salon culture in collaboration with the Johnson Museum of Art, and scholarly presentations.

Redbones and racial nuance in Louisiana Lumber War

Klarman Fellow Kendall Artz wants to push beyond the assumption – one replicated by scholars – that company rosters and state records hold all there is to know about racial expression.

Alumni gift endows director position for Jewish Studies Program

The $5 million gift from Joseph Lubeck ’78 offers the Jewish Studies Program foundational support for the future.

Is Mamdani’s win indicative of a new wave in national politics? Not likely says Cornell expert

New York City is too unique for Mamdani's victory to mean much for national politics, says professor of government Richard Bensel.

Medical anthropologist to deliver annual Society for Humanities lecture

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Nathan Seiberg explores frontiers of physics in 2025 Bethe Lecture

Seiberg, professor in the School of Natural �鶹��Ƶ at the Institute for Advanced Study, will explore string theory and other aspects of scientific progress.

Historian to explore state of American sports in 2025 Seymour Lecture

Author and historian Kevin Baker will examine the paradox at the heart of modern American sports: while there are more games and sports than ever before, access has become increasingly limited and costly.

Faculty members discussed the value of international aid in the wake of the Trump administration’s policy that froze foreign assistance.