Nine doctoral candidates were inducted into the Cornell Chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes scholarly achievement and promotes diversity in doctoral education.
David Shoemaker, a professor of philosophy at Cornell University who studies the moral psychology of humor, says that political satire—long a staple of late-night TV—plays a critical role in democracy, cutting through partisanship and exposing hypocrisies that traditional news often can’t.
Beth Ryan, a graduate student in chemistry and chemical biology working in the Baskin Lab at Cornell’s Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, has been selected as a Young Scientist to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Chemistry, to be held June 2025 in Lindau, Germany.
The exhibit celebrates a century of applying science and design to the study of the home, the result of a collaboration between the museum and the College of Human Ecology as part of its centennial year.
More than two dozen staff members who earned degrees at Cornell or other institutions this year while also working at the university were celebrated in a ceremony held June 10 at the East Hill Office Building.
