Atkinson Hall opens as a hub for research, collaboration

Atkinson Hall officially opened its doors with a ribbon-cutting ceremony April 9, realizing its benefactors’ vision of the facility as a home for impact-driven research across grand challenges in sustainability, cancer biology and immunology, nutrition, global health and computational biology.

$4.3M gift from Autodesk names two makerspaces

The software company is contributing $2 million each to Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning and Cornell Engineering to name and update “design and make” spaces.

Samsara, Meraki co-founder honored at entrepreneurship celebration

More than 300 alumni, students, faculty, staff and community members joined Celebration Ezra 2025 on April 10-11, to network, get inspired and honor the Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year John Bicket ’02.

Law professor to discuss his post-Holocaust psalms

Menachem Rosensaft, adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, will read poems from his latest book, “Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz,” on April 21 at White Hall, room 110. A Q&A discussion will follow.

Hatfield lecturer offers insights on obtaining success

Christy Pambianchi ’90, executive vice president and chief people officer at Intel, delivered the lecture April 10 in Ives Hall.

Group offers skills, and friendship, to local students with disabilities

The student-run club works with TST-BOCES students with intellectual disabilities to develop communication and life skills, and a sense of curiosity and confidence, that help them as they transition out of school.

Symposium launches archive of Venezuelan migrant testimonies

On April 18, this collection of migrant experiences will be presented to the public in a daylong symposium at the A. D. White House.

Texans’ embrace of turbines may herald winds of change

Texans on average hold positive views about wind energy developments, welcoming turbines’ local benefits despite state and national leaders' efforts to disincentivize such projects.

Cornell Celebrates Breakthrough Prize for LHC Collaborations

Cornell researchers are helping upgrade the CMS detector at CERN, as LHC collaborations win the 2024 Breakthrough Prize for fundamental physics discoveries.

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