2025 Year in Review

Cornell’s impact was felt near and far, from the lacrosse fields to research labs and beyond in a turbulent 2025.

Celebrating the journey with our December A&S grads

Three A&S grads share their journeys through Cornell.

Around Cornell

Book explores ‘modernity and malevolence’ in Indian clinical care

The new book from anthropology professor Andrew Willford shows how patterns of psycho-social stress combined with modernity’s pressures can influence psychiatric practice.

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.

In lab mice rehomed to fields, anxiety is reversed

When researchers "rewilded" lab mice to large, enclosed fields, even well-established anxieties in the mice disappeared. 

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.