Cornell PhD students create inventory drone and weeding robot

The August Startup Cornell podcast features doctoral students Doris Xu and Katrina Davis, two founders who were part of a summer Prototyping Hardware Accelerator at Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, a business incubator and startup workspace in downtown Ithaca.

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Stephen Ashley ’62, MBA ’64, trustee emeritus and CALS benefactor, dies at 86

Trustee emeritus and philanthropist Stephen Ashley ’62, MBA ’64, whose service and advocacy for Cornell spanned more than five decades, died July 29 in Richmond, New York.

2026 LinkedIn grant recipients to drive innovation in GenAI, LLMs

LinkedIn and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science announce the fifth and final group of researchers to receive grants from their strategic partnership.

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Soil carbon effectively measured by new, efficient AI model

A new model offers a proof-of-principle for how AI might be used to shed light on obscure biological processes.

Knowing a manager’s stance on unions can affect worker performance

New research out of the SC Johnson College finds that publicly disclosing management's opposition to collective bargaining led workers who prefer individual bargaining to increase their effort and earn higher wages.

Rubber tree agroforestry supports birds, biodiversity in the Colombian Amazon

A doctoral candidate and Semlitz Sustainability Fellow and his Colombian partners seek to protect birds and biodiversity in the Amazon via sustainable rubber tree agroforestry.

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How a Cornell startup scaled to $1.3 billion in battery tech

The startup was founded by Cornell alumni and a professor, inspired by a class in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and nurtured through Cornell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

China’s pollution declines came at a cost

China’s Scientific Outlook on Development program, which tied local leaders’ job performance evaluations to environmental quality improvements, had negative impacts on the country's agricultural economy, researchers found.

From Marine Corps to Cornell Tech: Harold Reed’s next mission in tech leadership

During nine years in the United States Marine Corps, Harold Reed was responsible for complex systems, high-stakes decisions, and the people behind them.

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