What does it mean to train an AI to speak like you?

Ultra-personalized AI for assisted communication risks muting aspects of the user’s identity and can breach privacy, according to a study from a Cornell Tech doctoral student who trained the technology on himself.

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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Extended reality tool lets dancers analyze movement

A Cornell doctoral student has helped develop a tool, DanXeReflect, that lets dancers use video and extended reality headsets to create an immersive environment for analyzing and refining their movements.

Two doctoral students selected as Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows

City and regional planning doctoral students Manoel Pereira Neto and Gauri Nagpal were selected as two of 50 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Innovation Fellows.

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Ten inducted into Bouchet Honor Society

Ten doctoral candidates were inducted into the Cornell Chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and service in doctoral education.

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Jane Lynch, MFA ’84, to deliver Convocation address May 21

Jane Lynch, MFA ’84, a five-time Emmy winner who hosts the Fox TV game show “Celebrity Weakest Link,” will give the keynote address at Senior Convocation, set for May 21 from 1-2:30 p.m. in Barton Hall.

Black Student Empowerment awarded 2026 Perkins Prize

Black Student Empowerment, in the Centers for Student Equity, Empowerment and Belonging, has received the annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony.

Soundwaves settle debate about elusive quantum particle

By measuring the movement of soundwaves rather than the flow of heat, Cornell researchers identified a new intrinsic effect in a quantum material.

Making big tech algorithms ‘fair’ is harder than it looks

Research from Cornell Tech shows that before big tech engineers can improve the fairness of recommendation systems they need to define what “fairness” even means.