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.

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. 

New tool can help NYS make economically beneficial food purchases

Cornell researchers have developed an economic model that calculates the additional business activity and tax revenue generated from purchases of specific local products.

Finding purpose and beauty, Contribution Project expands its reach

The project - which has expanded to four SUNY schools and to younger kids nationally - has disbursed more than $500,000 to over 1,300 participants, bolstering young people's sense of agency, community and purpose.

Cornell Tech celebrates opening of new MakerLAB in the Tata Innovation Center

Cornell Tech leadership, alongside elected officials, faculty, students, staff, and the Roosevelt Island community, hosted an official ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the campus’s new MakerLAB on May 2.

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Cornell Tech celebrates innovation and entrepreneurship with May events

The annual Startup Awards will feature top student pitch presentations, and special guest Andrew Ross Sorkin will announce winners.

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With sustainable practices, New York dairy farms lower emissions

In collaboration with farmers, researchers found that emission intensities from New York state dairy farms were lower per gallon of milk than national estimates and among the lowest reported across continents. 

Afterschool programs in Jefferson Co. yield ‘tremendous results’

The Cornell Cooperative Extension-run programs, which enroll more than 1,200 students, support students’ academic success and social and emotional well-being, while building bridges between families, schools and communities.

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.