Ignoring status ‘a major mistake,’ says Cook-Gray lecturer

Stanford University’s Cecilia L. Ridgeway M.S. ’69, Ph.D. ’72 explains how understanding status can help to create a more egalitarian society.

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Cornell AAP to launch first New York City-based high school summer program

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning is adding a new summer intensive for high schoolers interested in studying the collective aspirations, methodologies, and processes involved in the design of cities.

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Bezos grant fuels AI project to turn EVs into mobile grid batteries

A Cornell research project exploring how electric vehicles can serve as a flexible, dispatchable network of mobile energy storage to strengthen and decarbonize the power grid is advancing with a $1.8 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund.

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Sacramento International Airport commissions Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas to create permanent public installation

Using imagery and words that celebrate the surrounding valley as well as airport staff, Ramírez Jonas has revealed preliminary models of the full work, which will wrap the transportation hub's new six-story parking facility.

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Academic integrity and generative AI focus of PWGIA event

A keynote and faculty panel on Nov. 12 will focus on how faculty can communicate their generative AI-related expectations to students, how students can take accountability for their work, and what this looks like in practice.

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Cornell Atkinson postdoctoral fellows aim to improve food security, climate, clean water

Cornell Atkinson has announced its 2025 Postdoctoral Fellows, who work jointly with a Cornell advisor and an external advisor from a partner organization to advance sustainability research. 

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Indonesian women created a political voice through gendered care work

In "Domestic Nationalism," Chiara Formichi argues that during the 1920s to 1950s, Indonesian women’s domestic activities contributed to nation-building as a political project. 

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Botanic Gardens’ Director to Retire

Christopher P. Dunn, PhD, executive director of Cornell Botanic Gardens, retires at the end of 2025. He led the organization into a new era of relevance to the university, community, and world, with a focused mission on conserving biological and cultural diversity. 

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TCAM brunch highlight’s women’s history at Cornell

Cornell historian Corey Earle shared stories of remarkable women throughout Cornell’s history during an Oct. 25 brunch as part of the Trustee Council Annual Meeting. 

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