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The College of Arts and Sciences welcomes new faculty for 2026-27

Twenty new faculty have joined the College of Arts & Sciences this year, strengtheningdepartments and programs with their wide-ranging expertise and filling numerous leadershiproles for the College and university.

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Hops and dreams: Cornell helps new varieties go from field to glass 

The Cornell Hop Breeding Program aims to give New York growers and brewers cultivars suited to the state's climate and disease pressure.  

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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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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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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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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Pessimism, cost of living are on the rise, New York at Work report finds

Studying two decades of data collected through the Empire State Poll, researchers have found that the cost of living dominates respondents’ key concerns, eclipsing other priorities, such as the environment. 

Is there an AI bubble? No, but some tech companies show signs

The AI sector is not in a bubble market, but the prices of some individual AI companies behave with the price variability and exuberance characteristic of a bubble, according to new Cornell research.

Research Matters returns, following ideas from the lab to real life 

The second season of Research Matters, a Cornell video podcast, drops today, with a way-too-relevant episode on why we don't always do the things we know we should.