Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded the 2025 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. The biennial prize, announced May 15, “recognizes an individual for exceptional and original research in a selected area of chemistry that has advanced the field in a major way.”

In this opinion essay, co-authored by Sandra Babcock, clinical professor of law, Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is examined.

Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy, explains why the Trump family's involvement with crypto should set off alarm bells.

“Corruption is deeper than whether someone is making backroom deals. Instead, it’s a sense that the game itself is rigged in favor of a select few,” says Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute.

Caitie Barrett, professor of archaeology, discusses the meaning of an amulet found in a Pompeii site.

Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy, discusses what is needed to build a strong manufacturing sector in America.

After escaping the Taliban, nine women arrived at Cornell. The first to complete their degrees are part of the Class of 2025.

“The sense is that the world has changed fundamentally in ways that cannot easily be put back together. Every country has to figure out its own place in this new world order and how to protect its own interests,” says Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy.

Barry Strauss, professor of history, says “The rules they followed in Rome were not necessarily applied in godforsaken Eboracum. So, although the man was probably not a gladiator, he may indeed have been one. Burial in the gladiator cemetery is certainly an argument in favor of that theory.”

“We had been thinking about this as the prisoners’ dilemma, but we were wrong,” says Tom Pepinsky, professor of government.