Passion and partnerships: Finding success as faculty

The sixth Future Professors Institute invited aspiring faculty to engage with current faculty from a variety of backgrounds and institutional types.

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Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture powers 15 innovative new projects

The Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture has announced the recipients of its 2025 Research Innovation Fund faculty and student grants supporting new, cross-disciplinary projects designed to improve global food systems via digital innovation.

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How a COVID study uncovered the research ‘pivot penalty’

A study that initially looked at the career impacts of shifting one's research to the COVID pandemic revealed that any researcher who changes their focus to a new field can face a serious "pivot penalty."

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Lasers match common herbicides at zapping East Coast weeds

The study found that the laser weeders worked as well as common herbicides in test plots of East Coast peas, beets and spinach.

To slow global warming, bury wood debris

Researchers project that burying the wood debris from managed forests could reduce global warming up to 0.76 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100.

Global perspectives reframe timeline and scope of WWII

This summer marks the 80th anniversary of the “official” end of World War II, but a new book co-edited by Ruth Lawlor, assistant professor of history, extends the war’s timeline back to 1931 and into the mid-1950s.

Colanzi wins Zinklar Award for short fiction

Liliana Colanzi’s award is the first Zinklar Prize to honor Spanish language fiction.

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Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe

Overconfidence is a hallmark trait of people who believe in conspiracies, and they also significantly overestimate how much others agree with them, Cornell psychology researchers have found. 

ILR School launches National Conflict Resolution Service

The Scheinman Institute, which promotes a problem-solving approach to dispute resolution, has formed the Cornell ILR National Conflict Resolution Service in collaboration with the American Arbitration Association.