Student draws on experience to transform assistive communication

At 15, Tobias Weinberg lost the ability to speak - now as a Ph.D. student at Cornell Tech, he's using AI to improve the technologies he and others with speech disabilities rely on to communicate. 

First WCM-Q AI Hackathon drives health care tech innovation

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar hosted its first AI Hackathon – a collaborative, interdisciplinary event that brought together medical and computer science students to develop AI-driven solutions for pressing clinical challenges.

Ǫgwahǫwéhneha:ˀ gyǫhéhgǫh: ‘Food of the Original People’ returns to Morrison Dining

A collaboration between Cornell Dining, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) and Cornell Botanic Gardens, Ǫgwahǫwéhneha:ˀ gyǫhéhgǫh or Food of the Original People, returns to Morrison Dining for its second year on Nov. 4.

Around Cornell

Students’ Baja Racing team roars to series of victories

To build a winning off-road car, the student-led Baja Racing team built on the legacy and lessons of those who came before them.

New Cornell Bowers building dedicated

Cornell leaders, donors, faculty and students gathered Oct. 24 to officially dedicate the new building for the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. The building opened in August, on time and on schedule.

Botanic Gardens’ Director to Retire

Christopher P. Dunn, PhD, executive director of Cornell Botanic Gardens, retires at the end of 2025. He led the organization into a new era of relevance to the university, community, and world, with a focused mission on conserving biological and cultural diversity. 

Around Cornell

New York wool goes to fashion school

Through a series of visits to regional farms and experimentation with local wool, students in the College of Human Ecology are discovering its idiosyncrasies and charms.

Kotlikoff inaugurated as Cornell’s 15th president

The official inauguration followed a dinner for trustees, council members and guests in Barton Hall as part of the Trustee-Council Annual Meeting schedule. 

Kotlikoff: Education is key to a better future

We are living in “an enormously consequential time for our university, for all of higher education and for our country,” President Michael I. Kotlikoff said in the annual State of the University address, Oct. 24 in Call Auditorium.