Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series announces dynamic 2026-27 Season

The 2026-27 DMCCS season includes Chucho Valdés, Time for Three with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Isabelle Faust and Sunny Jain.

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Deans discuss democracy on new podcast series

A new series of episodes on a Cornell podcast will reflect on the 250th birthday of the U.S. and feature three Cornell deans.

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Martie Young, ‘great hero’ of Johnson Museum of Art, dies at 96

Martie Wing Young, professor of the history of art, emeritus, died on July 12 in Prescott, Arizona.

Deep connections drive psychedelic research

As psychedelic drugs gain more support from the medical community as a potential treatment for severe depression, Cornell researchers are making crucial discoveries that explain how compounds such as psilocybin work on the brain.

More social connections with weaker ties lead to greater polarization

Weak social ties, not close friendships, may drive polarization, sociologist Michael Macy finds with collaborators. 

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DOE Genesis Mission awards will advance AI-driven science

Two Cornell-led research teams have been selected to receive nearly $1.2 million through Phase I of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission.

Sandwell wins prize for book on South African anti-apartheid movement

History professor Rachel Sandwell won the Joel Gregory Book Prize for "National Liberation and the Political Life of Exile," her study of women’s leadership in South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement.

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Will Julia Felix survive? Classics prof is on the case in Pompeii TV series

Cornell archaeologist Caitie Barrett helps actor Tom Hiddleston uncover some of the secrets of the daily lives of people who were living in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D.

The rich get richer – not just materially, but socially

Social connection is as disparate and unequal as income in the U.S. – and the two reinforce each other, Cornell sociologists argue in a new book.