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Enabling hotel guests to customize their rooms fosters customer loyalty

Hotel guests who can customize their rooms by selecting layout, snack bar offerings, and pillow softness are more likely to become loyal customers.

Around Cornell

$10.5M gift to Cornell will fund research using Empire AI

The gift from philanthropist Tom Secunda, co-founder of Bloomberg L.P., will help fund artificial intelligence-related research at Cornell Tech in New York City and at the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science in Ithaca.

Nanoscale tweaks help alloy withstand high-speed impacts

A Cornell-led collaboration devised a new method for designing metals and alloys that can withstand extreme impacts: introducing nanometer-scale speed bumps that suppress a fundamental transition that controls how metallic materials deform.

Peer recognition crucial for success in physics research

Even when women receive similar amounts of recognition from peers as men for excelling in physics classes, they perceive significantly less peer recognition, new research has found.

Applications open for seventh annual Grow-NY competition

Startups in the food and agriculture sectors can apply through May 15.

Panels discuss federal research funding threats, opportunities

Experts discussed support for science research during a pair of panels organized by faculty and students on Feb. 28.

Study: ‘Ball and chain’ mechanism inactivates key ion channel

A new study has unveiled a precise picture of how an ion channel found in most mammalian cells regulates its own function with a “ball-and-chain” channel-plugging mechanism, according to investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine.

AI models make precise copies of cuneiform characters

Researchers from Cornell and Tel Aviv University have developed an approach to use artificial intelligence for reading the ancient tablets.

Solar solutions: Workers face challenges in renewable energy sector

The solar boom in New York state is not only powering homes, businesses and infrastructure; it is also generating jobs. Researchers at the ILR School’s Climate Jobs Institute are helping to ensure the solar workforce is treated fairly and equitably.

Blau: New policies needed to jumpstart stalled gender equity in labor market

The United States is at a crossroads in the path toward gender equity in the labor market, according to Fran Blau ‘66, Frances Perkins Professor of ILR and professor of economics, emeritus, at the ILR School. 

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COVID-flu vaccine could provide broad, lasting protection

The new platform, which provided 100% protection from influenza and COVID-19 in mouse models, could vastly improve vaccine administration and the efficacy of the current flu vaccine.

Samsara co-founder named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year

Entrepreneurship at Cornell has announced that John Bicket ’02, chief technology officer and co-founder of tech firm Samsara, has been named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2025.