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Four student-founded AI companies win Cornell Tech Startup Awards

The startups each won $100,000 investments during the university’s annual Startup Awards competition, held May 14.

Airbnb Plus: not a plus for everyone

Airbnb’s now-defunct “Airbnb Plus” program didn’t just help the listings it approved: It also unintentionally hurt many hosts who were left out, according to research from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.

Community-engaged learning celebrated, Buffalo Co-Lab honored

ILR School’s Buffalo Co-Lab has played a vital role in western New York, working in partnership with business, union, government, education and community organizations.

Low-cost solution to parasite, poverty at risk from possible NSF cuts

Cornell-led research linking poverty and disease – and a promising path out of both – faces an uncertain future as federal science funding comes under pressure.

Mass timber industry offers sustainable construction, high-quality jobs

The ILR School’s Climate Jobs Institute presented its primer on the how the production of mass timber can create jobs and accelerate the creation of affordable housing.

Erik Thorbecke, economist with global impact, dies at 97

Thorbecke, one of the creators of a widely used metric for measuring poverty, died on April 26 in Fort Bragg, California.

Businesses, investors ‘flying blind’ when trust in government statistics declines

Even a temporary loss of trust in official data may be costly, with an economic impact many times the budgets of the agencies that report key indicators.

Entrepreneurial students win awards for summer work on their startups

Thirty student startups received Human Spirit, Beck Fellows and Cane Entrepreneurial Scholars awards this summer from Entrepreneurship at Cornell, funding that will allow students to work on their startups rather than take traditional summer positions.

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Cornell Tech announces the 2026 Startup Awards and the Inaugural Frontiers of AI Summit

As the 2025–26 academic year comes to a close, Cornell Tech will host a series of events throughout May showcasing student achievement, entrepreneurship, design, and the future of emerging technologies.

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