With AI transforming how societies function, a new program in the College of Arts and Sciences aims to meet the urgent need to understand AI’s implications for culture, governance, ethics, communication, creativity, labor and social organization.
Six Cornell research teams selected for the spring 2026 cycle of the Ignite Innovation Acceleration program are working on advancing their innovation projects toward real-world impact.
Cornell researchers, working with an upstate New York battery company, have developed a real-time diagnostic approach to improving one of the most expensive and time-consuming stages of lithium-ion battery manufacturing: forming the battery.
A family of mutations seen in about 20% of human cancers drives malignancy by changing the accessibility of genes to a particular regulatory protein, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
Cornell information science researchers and Cornell Law School faculty found that in capital cases, prosecutors invoke a range of gender stereotypes against women defendants to increase the likelihood of convictions and death sentences.
Researchers from Cornell Bowers and Crisis Text Line, which provides free, confidential mental health support, have developed a method for tracking how counselors hone their ability to steer conversations toward positive outcomes.
The grant will fund a phase 1 placebo-controlled trial in healthy men, including developing an oral formulation, establishing manufacturing protocols and evaluating safety.
The new Communities of Practice for AI-enabled Research (CoPAIR) program gives researchers access to emerging AI tools, hands-on training and collaborative communities where they can share best practices, develop disciplinary norms for appropriate AI use and non-use, and evaluate new tools for research.
Hannah Lloyd, a postdoctoral associate in Cornell’s Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, has received the 2026 Sam and Nancy Fleming Research Fellowship
