Cultivating future scientists through plants and partnerships

Students from Buffalo's McKinley High School — home to one of the few high-school horticulture programs in New York state — visited Cornell May 19 to view the work of the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS).

Around Cornell

New director, grants mark expansion of Engaged Engineering

Led by Lauren Stulgis, the Engaged Engineering initiative announced its first grants, backing projects that use engineering to serve communities through environmental monitoring, AI and data analytics, and mechanical design.

Around Cornell

Cornell Atkinson awards drive progress in tech, ag, sustainability

Cornell Atkinson has awarded $900k to support six new research projects that seek to protect coral reefs, improve greenhouse agriculture and understand whether wildfires affect disease spread.

Amazon partnership establishes Cornell AI security initiative

Cornell computer scientists will lead the development of safety protocols to shore up AI agents and the code they produce.

Electrochemical bath recycles critical minerals in batteries

Researchers developed a more efficient and cost-effective way to recover almost the full life of lithium-ion batteries after they are spent.

Kanvas Biosciences raises $48 million to advance microbiome cancer therapies

Kanvas Biosciences announced a $48 million Series A funding round, which will support a clinical trial later this year for the company’s lead cancer immunotherapy treatment. 

Around Cornell

Student to join Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting as Young Scientist

Kapil Gangwar will participate as a Young Scientist in the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, bringing together Nobel laureates and promising early-career researchers from around the world.

Around Cornell

Researchers make moiré 2D materials without stacking, twisting

Cornell researchers have developed a new way to create moiré patterns – atomic-scale structures that can give materials unusual quantum behaviors – without relying on the twisting and stacking methods traditionally used.

Carbon dioxide and water played key role in historic Mount Etna eruption

Researchers identified very different mechanisms behind two historic eruptions of Mount Etna in Italy – a finding that can help geologists assess the risk of future eruptions.