November 05, 2026
When the 120th U.S. Congress convenes in January, there will be nine Cornell alumni in its ranks – eight in the House of Representatives, one in the Senate – the most in more than 50 years.
November 03, 2026
Cornell engineers have developed a semiconductor material with a record-setting bandgap and turned it into working devices, opening the door to electronics that handle much higher voltages while wasting less energy.
November 02, 2026
Five graduate students rose to the challenge of explaining their research in just five minutes at Research Lightning Talks: Big Ideas Demystified during the inaugural Cornell Volunteer Summit.
October 30, 2026
Cornell researchers have demonstrated that uranium ditelluride can exhibit both flavors of superconductivity at once, setting it apart as a leading candidate to be a topological superconductor.
October 28, 2026
Cornell researchers, working with an upstate New York battery company, have developed a real-time diagnostic approach to improving one of the most expensive and time-consuming stages of lithium-ion battery manufacturing: forming the battery.
October 28, 2026
Cornell information science researchers and Cornell Law School faculty found that in capital cases, prosecutors invoke a range of gender stereotypes against women defendants to increase the likelihood of convictions and death sentences.
October 28, 2026
Researchers from Cornell Bowers and Crisis Text Line, which provides free, confidential mental health support, have developed a method for tracking how counselors hone their ability to steer conversations toward positive outcomes.
October 26, 2026
Most faculty, staff and students will have free access to a range of AI platforms – an effort to level the playing field, spur exploration and reduce the costs and vulnerabilities of individual consumer licenses.
October 15, 2026
Researchers proposed a novel way to manage the increased demand for electricity by data centers: a credit market that would allow centers that are facing required cutbacks to pay flexible energy users to take on their obligations when the grid is strained.
October 14, 2026
Researchers at the Cornell Duffield College of Engineering have found that electrically sliding the layers of ultrathin graphene can switch the material between distinct magnetic states that persist even after the voltage is removed.
October 12, 2026
Sociologist Holly Jean Buck, Ph.D. ’17, a member of the University at Buffalo faculty, is one of 20 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Fellowships, known as the “genius grants,” for her research on climate change and environmental policy.
October 09, 2026
Researchers designed a new, faster form of two-photon fluorescence imaging for observing cell metabolism in real time, a method that could enable quicker screening of new therapeutic treatments.
October 08, 2026
Overworked teachers in southern India have a new tool, developed by Cornell researchers, for educating their students: Shiksha Copilot, an AI system that generates culturally relevant lesson plans for schools with few resources.
October 07, 2026
A new engineered gene editing system addresses some of the limitations of current gene editing tools with the hope of improving their use for research, for better crops or to treat diseases.
October 06, 2026
In financial disclosures, particularly by companies that are coming out of tough times, a firm’s verbal circuitousness can paint a fuller picture of a company’s prospects, a Cornell research group found.
October 01, 2026
A doctoral student and a team of Cornell researchers and colleagues created WildFin, a data set composed of nine hours of video that they labeled frame-by-frame with fish behaviors.
September 30, 2026
Cornell researchers’ analysis of 1.5 million petitions on Change.org showed that AI writing assistance altered the wording of petitions, increasing their homogeneity and length, but did not improve petition outcomes.
September 23, 2026
Cornell physics researchers have made robots that for the first time can sense the temperature of their surroundings and react together to change it.
September 09, 2026
A research team has proven the feasibility of using polydopamine-dyed and ultrablack wool as a low-cost, renewable water-purification method.
September 08, 2026
Doctoral student Sylvana Ross and a team of Cincinnati youths spent their summer studying city-dwelling insects, amassing data that can inform decisions that support healthy green spaces.
August 27, 2026
Targeting launch Aug. 30, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will attempt to directly image a set of exoplanets selected with help from Cornell faculty member Dmitry Savransky.
August 27, 2026
Cornell’s To Do the Greatest Good campaign surpassed its goal of raising more than $5 billion and engaging more than 200,000 alumni – achievements that will enhance opportunities for students and accelerate critical faculty research.
August 25, 2026
The AI sector is not in a bubble market, but the prices of some individual AI companies behave with the price variability and exuberance characteristic of a bubble, according to new Cornell research.
August 21, 2026
Jason Marvin, Ph.D. ’22, spoke about his journey from biomedical engineering doctorate to his current position during the Summer Success Symposium alumni keynote on Aug. 18.
August 18, 2026
A new diagnostic tool distinguishes between two similar canine oral cancers, opening the door for a promising FDA-approved treatment.
