Radical Collaboration

Cornell faculty are reaching across disciplines to tackle society’s most complex challenges and to make breakthrough discoveries. These radical collaborations—collisions of thoughts and perspectives from vastly different fields—lead to unexpected and unconventional solutions and deepen our thinking.


Hubs grant launches AI collaboration, new proposals due Oct. 4

What are the options for limiting harm as AI use grows? This is one of the questions a network of international colleagues are tackling in a research collaboration launched with a 2022 Joint Research Seed Grant from Global Cornell’s Global Hubs initiative. This year’s cycle of Global Hubs seed grants recently opened.

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Campus grasslands grow environmental solutions

Projects across Cornell are exploring how the university's grasslands – from hayfields to campus lawns – can protect birds, encourage biodiversity and sequester carbon to fight climate change. 

Big changes afoot for US women and children’s nutrition program

With the guidance of two Cornell faculty, the federal government implements major changes for food assistance for babies, toddlers and birth parents.

Kourkoutis’ cryo-imaging continues to drive quantum discoveries

A team led by Judy Cha collaborated with the late Lena Kourkoutis to use cryo-electron imaging to study how defects in the microstructure of the nanomaterial tantalum disulfide affects its properties.

Colorado State University joins CROPPS

Colorado State University has joined the NSF-funded Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS), led by Cornell University, with Arjun Khakhar spearheading projects on plant genome editing and enhancing nitrogen and water use in crops.

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Female AI ‘teammate’ generates more participation from women

A new study suggests that the gender of an AI’s voice can positively tweak the dynamics of gender-imbalanced teams and could help inform the design of bots used for human-AI teamwork.

Precision laser surgery cuts focal epileptic seizure spread

An interdisciplinary Cornell research team has developed a new surgical technique that blocks the spread of focal epileptic seizures in the brain by making precise incisions with femtosecond laser pulses.

CROPPS welcomes 2024 REU class

The Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems is welcomes the 2024 cohort of the National Science Foundation-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.

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Economist, EPA adviser to join Brooks School, Atkinson

Sheila Olmstead will be appointed a professor in the Brooks School of Public Policy and a Cornell Atkinson Scholar July 1.