Two academic advisers earn 2025 excellence awards

Members of Cornell’s Professional Academic Advising Community honored two colleagues – and recognized an outgoing co-chair – at a ceremony May 8.

Game on! Video game design showcase set for May 17

On May 17, 21 student teams will present their video games at the annual Game Design Initiative at Cornell 2025 Games Showcase in Clark Atrium in the Physical Sciences building from 1-4 p.m.

Four faculty receive 2025 Carpenter Advising Awards

Nominations are solicited annually from all members of the academic community, the awards bestowed in recognition of the importance of undergraduate advising.

Cindy Estis Green ’79 named 2025 Cornell Hospitality Innovator

CEO and co-founder of Kalibri Labs, a hospitality platform that increases hotel value by identifying the most profitable revenue mix and driving smarter hotel real estate investments, to be honored.

Around Cornell

Students showcase their innovative tech, from critters to catacombs

In between classes and extracurriculars, students showcasing their tech-based projects in the 2025 annual Bits On Our Minds could have been seeing friends or catching up on sleep. Instead they were using their free time to brainstorm, experiment, code and create.

In a first, system uses sunlight to power carbon capture

Inspired by the mechanisms plants use to store carbon, researchers found that sunlight can power the capture and release of carbon dioxide, which could vastly lower costs and net emissions.

Research at risk: Protecting national defense from cyberattacks

A Cornell-led assessment of vulnerabilities in the semiconductor supply chain and how to mitigate them is on hold after receiving a stop-work order.

Suzanne Loker, emerita professor of fiber science and apparel design, dies at 77

Suzanne Loker, an innovator in apparel education and champion for sustainability and corporate responsibility, died April 12 at age 77, from cancer.

Hotelies extend Cornell commitment to ‘wish-making’

Hotel administration students raised nearly $5,000 for Make-A-Wish Central New York - with help and inspiration from an alumna who was a wish-kid herself and founded, in 1994, the first college "wish-makers" group in the country.