June 11, 2026
A Cornell researcher’s bold redesign of firefighter gear, which hasn’t significantly changed in decades, is more versatile and better adapted to their actual work, only a small fraction of which involves fighting structure fires.
June 05, 2026
A new technology allows scientists to map the DNA-binding sites of transcription factors and other regulatory proteins that control gene activity, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center.
June 04, 2026
Researchers at Cornell Tech and Cornell Bowers have created an AI framework that can create “shadow art” – partial line drawings that are completed by the shadow cast from an object – by simply scanning the object.
June 01, 2026
Cornell researchers have developed a computing device that stores information electrically but reads it through tiny mechanical motion, an approach that could open a path toward more energy-efficient hardware for AI and scientific computing.
June 01, 2026
Nearly a dozen doctoral students practiced their research communication skills this spring through legislative opportunities in Washington, D.C.
May 26, 2026
Doctoral candidates in the Class of 2026 were encouraged to work toward making the world a better place at the Ph.D. Recognition Ceremony, held May 22 in Barton Hall.
May 23, 2026
The Class of 2026 has the tenacity, talent and determination to advance the unfinished work of American democracy, President Michael I. Kotlikoff told graduates and their guests at Commencement ceremonies held May 23.
May 22, 2026
The Center for Teaching Innovation's Graduate Teaching Fellows program is celebrating 15 years of supporting the next generation of professors with graduate training to help them prepare for their future teaching.
May 18, 2026
The Graduate Excellence and Impact Awards recognized members of the graduate community for their impacts on advancing access, engagement and belonging through service and leadership.
May 14, 2026
Airbnb’s now-defunct “Airbnb Plus” program didn’t just help the listings it approved: It also unintentionally hurt many hosts who were left out, according to research from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
May 14, 2026
A new tool is designed to help users rank a set of choices – such as job applicants, graduate schools, even Oscar candidates.
May 12, 2026
Cornell astronomers are deploying a new instrument that grants them, for the first time, a better view of the universe’s earliest galaxies, which can’t be observed individually with ground- or space-based telescopes.
May 04, 2026
Ultra-personalized AI for assisted communication risks muting aspects of the user’s identity and can breach privacy, according to a study from a Cornell Tech doctoral student who trained the technology on himself.
May 01, 2026
Thirty student startups received Human Spirit, Beck Fellows and Cane Entrepreneurial Scholars awards this summer from Entrepreneurship at Cornell, funding that will allow students to work on their startups rather than take traditional summer positions.
April 30, 2026
A Cornell doctoral student has helped develop a tool, DanXeReflect, that lets dancers use video and extended reality headsets to create an immersive environment for analyzing and refining their movements.
April 30, 2026
Ten doctoral candidates were inducted into the Cornell Chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and service in doctoral education.
April 30, 2026
City and regional planning doctoral students Manoel Pereira Neto and Gauri Nagpal were selected as two of 50 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Innovation Fellows.
April 27, 2026
Jane Lynch, MFA ’84, a five-time Emmy winner who hosts the Fox TV game show “Celebrity Weakest Link,” will give the keynote address at Senior Convocation, set for May 21 from 1-2:30 p.m. in Barton Hall.
April 23, 2026
Black Student Empowerment, in the Centers for Student Equity, Empowerment and Belonging, has received the annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony.
April 22, 2026
By measuring the movement of soundwaves rather than the flow of heat, Cornell researchers identified a new intrinsic effect in a quantum material.
April 22, 2026
Research from Cornell Tech shows that before big tech engineers can improve the fairness of recommendation systems they need to define what “fairness” even means.
April 21, 2026
A student-built methane sensor device is empowering researchers and indigenous communities to protect and restore mangrove forests in Colombia.
April 16, 2026
Artificial intelligence is touching nearly every aspect of life, including assistive technology for vision-impaired individuals. And just like in other arenas, the AI used to assist them is good, but far from perfect.
April 16, 2026
Conversational AI tools denied blunt requests for harmful content by researchers posing as intimate partner abusers, but these guardrails were easily circumvented, a new Cornell Tech study has found.
April 07, 2026
The first phase of the university’s upcoming reaccreditation process is underway, with the naming of a steering committee and an invitation to the community to provide input.
