Engaged Opportunity Grants Connect Students with Community Partnerships

Cornell students are gaining new opportunities to extend classroom learning beyond campus through the latest round of Engaged Opportunity Grants from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement. The five funded projects bring…

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NSF grant aims to rethink how engineering students learn teamwork

A new National Science Foundation grant awarded to the Cornell Duffield College of Engineering aims to develop a more systematic approach to teaching teamwork by helping instructors identify what they want students to learn from team experiences.

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The science behind the scroll: Donghui Li’s path from Cornell Tech to TikTok

Cornell Tech alumna Donghui Li is a senior data scientist at TikTok.

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Medina Tovar joins Weill Institute to study cellular evolution, pathogenesis of fungi

Edgar Medina Tovar joins the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and the College of Arts & Sciences as an assistant research professor in September. He will begin as an assistant professor in January 2027.

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AAP semester snapshot: fall 2026 in focus

Refreshed learning and making spaces, innovative programming, and expert faculty and staff spanning five departments and three campuses welcome students back to classrooms and studios as Cornell AAP opens a dynamic academic year.

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Researchers use light to generate nanoscale magnetization

Using an engineered metasurface that traps light, Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new way to generate strong static magnetic fields without using external magnets or magnetic materials – an approach that could advance spintronics, quantum and photonic computing, and data storage.

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Einhorn Center launches new staff fellowship program and welcomes largest cohort of new engaged fellows

Forty-two faculty members and staff from 19 Cornell schools, colleges, and administrative units have been named Engaged Fellows for 2026-2027, marking the largest cohort since the program’s launch in 2013. Fellows will spend the…

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Marvel actor Dominique Thorne ’19 visits campus for screening, talks

Thorns is the 2026 Heermans-McCalmon Distinguished Guest Artist, a program of the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) in the College of Arts & Sciences.

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Where can a biomedical M.Eng. take you? Just ask the Class of 2016

A decade after graduation, Cornell biomedical engineering M.Eng. alumni returned to campus to share how the program's technical foundation, adaptability and community have shaped careers across diverse fields.

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