Rochester lawyer receives NYS Hometown Alumni Award

Fernando Santiago ’86 was recognized for his service in Monroe County, where he leads several nonprofits that assist people in need of food, housing, training and other support.

Think twice before founding that free-market utopia

Historian Raymond Craib’s new book shows how libertarian attempts at “adventure capitalism” have calamitous consequences for local populations.

Ancient Jewish text preserves real-world remedies

The Babylonian Talmud, a collection of traditions produced by Jews living in ancient Persia, contains a great deal of medical knowledge, according to a new book by a Cornell author.

Cornell to lead innovative midterm election survey

The National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell $2 million to oversee the first federally funded midterm election survey in 20 years, engaging multiple partners and diverse methodologies.

Juneteenth marks emancipation’s progress and delay

Riché Richardson, professor of Africana studies, shares her insights into the holiday and the promise and evolution of Black freedom.

Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie to be celebrated in July 1 memorial

The service and reception honoring the acclaimed writer's life and work are open to the public.

Around Cornell

Five companies ‘graduate’ from Cornell incubators

As the pandemic pomp and COVID circumstances dissipate, Cornell’s McGovern Center and Praxis Center incubators graduated five startups, putting them on the road to success.

AI reveals scale of eelgrass vulnerability to warming, disease

A combination of ecological field methods and AI has helped an interdisciplinary research group detect eelgrass wasting disease from San Diego to southern Alaska, and determine that it’s caused by warmer-than-normal water temperatures.

How Herman Melville can help us cope with dark times

“Up from the Depths,” a new book by history professor Aaron Sachs, tells the interconnected stories of writer and poet Herman Melville and the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford, who helped revive Melville from obscurity.