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Title of Teaching Professor and new award announced

The College of Arts and Sciences has created Teaching Professor titles to recognize excellence in teaching, advising and academic leadership. 

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Peter Katzenstein receives triennial James Madison Award

The APSA James Madison Award recognizes professor Peter Katzenstein for distinguished contributions to political science.

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Dyed wool a sustainable water purification alternative

A research team has proven the feasibility of using polydopamine-dyed and ultrablack wool as a low-cost, renewable water-purification method.

Cornell Unplugged encourages mindful tech use, social connection

New event asks the community to decrease technology use, increase face-to-face interaction and consider that every AI chat, doomscroll and text message has a water, energy and carbon footprint. 

Cornellians to address AI, NY energy future at Climate Week NYC

Cornell and global leaders will come together at Climate Week NYC Sept. 20-27 to discuss some of the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges, including harnessing AI’s power while mitigating its negative impacts.

Podcast celebrates Cornell earning #4 ranking in entrepreneurship

This month's Startup Cornell podcast featured a conversation between two campus leaders of Cornell's entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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AI reveals new class of cellular ‘off switch’ linked to cancer pathways

Cornell researchers have used artificial intelligence to uncover a previously unknown way cells control how proteins move inside them, a process essential for growth, communication and movement, and one that is often disrupted in cancer.

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Strengthening higher ed is goal of upcoming Konvitz Lecture

Rakesh Khurana ’89 will discuss why public trust in higher education has declined – and how universities and colleges can respond – when he delivers this year’s Milton R. Konvitz Memorial Lectureship in American Ideals.

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‘Red Alert’ tomatoes face real-world test at Aurora farm

A field of tomato plants during the 2026 Aurora Farm Field Day at Cornell’s Musgrave Research Farm is testing whether a living sensor can reveal nitrogen stress under unpredictable growing conditions.

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Economist Kerwin Charles, Ph.D. ’96, to give 2026 Staller Lecture

Yale economist Kerwin Charles, Ph.D. '96, will deliver Cornell University’s 2026 Staller Lecture on racial labor market inequality Sept. 22. 

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Environmentalist photographer kicks off A.D. White Professors-at-Large series

James Balog will discuss his work documenting the worldwide rapid retreat of glaciers on Sept. 17 as part of the visiting professors program.

The secret lives of city insects: bringing urban ecology to the community

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.