Two students awarded NSF CSGrad4US Fellowships

Ph.D. students Leah Lackey and Travis Lloyd are the first students from the National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships program to attend Cornell.

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State of the University highlights innovation, excellence

Cornell advanced its unique mission through a wide range of achievements in 2023, President Martha E. Pollack said in her State of the University address Oct. 20.

Grow-NY Summit to spotlight transformative technology

The fifth annual Grow-NY Summit will convene food and ag startups and industry players Nov. 14-15 at the Holiday Inn Binghamton Downtown, spotlighting the innovative technologies being developed locally and their impact that spans beyond the region.

Students hope to help NYS wine industry reuse bottles

Students are working with New York winemakers on a solution to a significant sustainability problem facing the wine industry: how to reuse the bottles.

New indoor sports facility to honor Peter C. Meinig ’61

The Department of Athletics and Physical Education has announced plans to build an indoor sports and recreation facility on Tower Road. The facility will be called Meinig Fieldhouse, in memory of former Board of Trustees chair Peter C. Meinig ’61.

Conference highlights humanities projects on the theme of “Crossing”

The Society’s fall conference on Oct. 27 will feature talks by seven multidisciplinary fellows.

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Research repository arXiv receives $10M for upgrades

Cornell Tech has announced a total of more than $10 million in gifts and grants from the Simons Foundation and the National Science Foundation, respectively, to support arXiv, a free distribution service and open-access archive for scholarly articles.

Maxine Bédat lays bare the fashion industry’s impacts and how we can change it

Author and Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer Maxine Bédat traced the life cycle of a pair of jeans to help illustrate the fashion industry’s impact.

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Clark Hall space becomes hub for social sciences

The Cornell Center for Social Sciences has moved into a newly renovated, 2,500-square-foot space on the second floor of Clark Hall, which will serve as a hub for the social sciences on campus.