A&S senior honored for work that impacts the community

For her work supporting the Ithaca community and people struggling with incarceration and drug addiction across New York, Netra Shetty ’25 earned the 2025 University Relations Campus Community Leadership Award.

Nine students receive SUNY Chancellor’s Awards

The award is the highest honor bestowed on students by SUNY and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional achievement across a range of areas, including academics, leadership and community service.

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.