Refurbished fridges at regional pantries store more fresh food

Two teams of students in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management worked with Whirlpool to place refurbished refrigerators on campus and in high need areas around the region.

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.

Delicious innovation: Students aim to shake up the food system

A large number of student-led startups and fledgling business ventures revolve around improving agriculture and nutrition.

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.

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.

Weill Cornell Medicine boosts medical research, health care, in Tanzania

Weill Cornell Medicine and colleagues in Tanzania are fostering a new generation of M.D./Ph.D. researchers, with implications for improved health care outcomes worldwide.

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. 

Cornell writers inspire kids’ poetry at Ithaca Children’s Garden

A crew of Cornell creative writers lent their time and experience to guide young poets during Nature Poetry in the Garden, an event held May 3 at the Ithaca Children’s Garden. 

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.