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Members of Cornell University's 2016 biomedical engineering master's class returned to campus for a 10-year reunion tied to Industry Day, sharing career lessons with current students and reconnecting with the program. The alumni described paths ... more

Cornell University has named Edouard Kopp the next Richard J. Schwartz Director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, with his appointment beginning Nov. 1. Kopp is chief curator of the Menil Drawing Institute ... more

Cornell University alum Dominique Thorne, who stars in Marvel's “Ironheart,” will return to campus Sept. 9-10 for film screenings, discussions and meetings with students. Thorne, a 2019 Cornell graduate, was selected as the university's 2026 ... more

A Cornell University research team is working with farmers to design and evaluate experiments conducted on their own farms, an approach intended to make agricultural research more practical and collaborative. The Farmers DataLab is led ... more

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology will hold its annual Migration Celebration from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at 159 Sapsucker Woods Road in Ithaca. The free, family-friendly event will include bird walks, ... more

The leader of NASA's Psyche mission will give a free public lecture at Cornell University on Friday, Sept. 11. Lindy Elkins-Tanton will speak at 7 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall's Schwartz Auditorium about the mission to ... more

A bipartisan Senate bill would direct the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to expand the use of environmental DNA in fish-stock surveys, building on a technique pioneered by Cornell researchers. Environmental DNA, or eDNA, allows ... more

More than half of the nation's 200 largest health systems operate at least one program aimed at reducing homelessness, according to a Cornell-led study. Housing programs were the most common, followed by outreach, shelter medicine, ... more

Three Ithaca startups developing technologies aimed at fighting agricultural frost, improving food testing and replacing plastic-based packaging coatings are among 20 companies selected to compete for $3 million through New York's Grow-NY food and agriculture ... more

Cornell women’s soccer saw an early lead disappear Sunday afternoon as Pittsburgh scored twice after halftime to hand the Big Red a 2-1 loss at Berman Field. Cornell fell to 2-2-0 on the season, while ... more

Cornell men's soccer opened the 2026 season on a strong note Saturday evening, using goals from three different players to earn a shutout victory over Marist at Tenney Stadium at Leonidoff Field. Senior Adam Schaban ... more

Ithaca poet and longtime Ithaca College writing professor Katharyn Howd Machan won third place in the 2026 New York State Fair Poetry Competition for her sonnet “Vineyard,” according to 14850.com. The award comes with a ... more

A Cornell University workshop exploring how artificial intelligence could speed software development concluded that governance, clear goals and cross-campus cooperation remain central to successful AI projects. Thirty faculty and staff members from Cornell and Weill ... more

Cornell University will host a three-day conference Sept. 10-12 focused on inequities in ocean and coastal research, policy and communities. The Just Ocean and Coastal Futures Conference will bring 32 scholars and graduate students from ... more

Autreyu Massaline rejected a plea agreement Thursday that would have capped his prison sentence at 18 years, clearing the way for an Oct. 23 retrial in the fatal stabbing of Edward Warren, according to The ... more

The Ithaca City School District Board of Education voted 6-3 to retain Bond, Schoeneck & King as its legal representative for the 2026-27 school year following questions about the bidding process, according to The Ithaca ... more

Sophomore defender Raya Leikin scored twice on penalty kicks in the second half, and Cornell women's soccer earned a 2-0 victory over Lafayette on Thursday night at Berman Field. The win improved the Big Red ... more

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have identified a mechanism that helps tuberculosis bacteria survive drying and generate mutations linked to antibiotic resistance. The study, published Aug. 26 in Nature Microbiology, found that drying triggered a DNA-repair ... more

Cornell University will host a free public lecture Sept. 9 on lessons from more than three decades of songbird migration research. Sara Morris has studied migration at a long-term bird-banding station on Appledore Island, Maine, ... more

Cornell Law School welcomed 218 first-year students in the J.D. Class of 2029 after receiving nearly 6,000 applications, a 29% increase from the previous year. The class entered with a median LSAT score of 173 ... more

A Cornell researcher is helping NASA prepare an instrument designed to directly image distant planets in visible light aboard the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The observatory, targeting launch no earlier than Aug. 30, is ... more