The mystery of the Seneca Drums persists

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.

Nick Salvatore, ‘one of our foremost historians,’ dies at 82

Nick Salvatore, a professor emeritus in the ILR School, an award-winning historian and teacher and lifelong champion for working people, died on Nov. 29 in Ithaca. He was 82.

Brain stimulation during sleep boosts weak memories in mice

Manipulating mouse brains during sleep improved their ability to 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

The Global Radio Explorer telescope is a series of eight terminals being built and tested at Cornell and the California Institute of Technology, and installed at locations around the world.

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.

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Cornell-China trip celebrates 20 years of Levinson Program

Leaders from the College of Arts & Sciences recently traveled to China and Asia to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Brittany and Adam J. Levinson Program in China and Asia-Pacific Studies.

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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. 

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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.

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Doctoral alumna selected for CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Anthropology alumna Dusti Bridges, Ph.D. ’25, was selected for the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards in the humanities and fine arts.

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