3D-printed superconductor achieves record performance

Nearly a decade after they first demonstrated that soft materials could guide the formation of superconductors, Cornell researchers have achieved a one-step, 3D printing method that produces superconductors with record properties.

Former NYT editor named Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Sam Tanenhaus is the former editor-in-chief of both the New York Times’ Book Review and the Week in Review and was a Times writer at large.

Horror, comedy, musicals and Jane Austen: Cornell Cinema’s fall 2025 season

This fall’s slate of films at Cornell Cinema offers many options for connection and inspiration. 

Around Cornell

Strength in numbers: ROTC welcomes largest class in decades

Proactive outreach and Cornell’s tradition of supporting military service have helped grow the number of cadets and midshipmen joining the Tri-Service Brigade this year.

Olin Library to hold reopening celebration Aug. 27

The celebration also features a welcome speech at 12:15 p.m. by Elaine L. Westbrooks, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, and open houses for the new Anthropology Collaboratory and Library Map Collection.

Book details Jews’ two-century fight against Roman Empire

Barry Strauss ’74 shines a light on the resilience the Jews of Judea showed in their rebellion against the Romans.

In new book, Farred breaks down his long-time sports fandoms

Grant Farred, a professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center, chronicles his love for both a distant and a local sports team in “A Sports Odyssey: My Ithaca Journal,” published July 25 by Temple University Press

Carl Sagan Medal awarded to astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger

The award recognizes and honors outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the public. 

Mountains embodied: understanding head shaping in ancient Andes

In a new book, bioarcheologist Matthew Velasco argues that the reduction of head shape to a marker of ethnic identity has been a colonial invention, one that overlooked significant diversity in lived experience.