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Listening party to celebrate music professor’s improvisational album drop

Grammy nominee Ariana Kim indulges her love for musical embellishment, flexibility and spontaneity in her new album, “(un)common thread.”

Campus-wide career development model to connect students more directly to opportunity

Cornell unveils the Cornell Career Network, a reimagined career development model designed to enhance exploration and access to opportunity, while aiming to make career readiness and support more integrated into the student experience.

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Understanding Hodgkin lymphoma cell origins could yield better diagnostics

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, that Hodgkin lymphoma cancer cells from patient samples are immune cells stuck in an “identity crisis.”

Hospitality competition winner plans to expand restaurant into a chain

Master’s student Avery Sheppard won $25,000 to put toward her fish and chips eatery by winning the Nolan School’s hospitality business plan competition, held April 18 in Statler Auditorium.

Black Student Empowerment awarded 2026 Perkins Prize

Black Student Empowerment, in the Centers for Student Equity, Empowerment and Belonging, has received the annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony.

Morally diverse communities more accepting of norm violations

Individuals in a morally diverse community tend to believe that the community’s norms are looser. In turn, norm violations are more accepted, and there is a reduced willingness to police transgressions, according to research by Merrick Osborne, assistant professor of organizational behavior at the ILR School.

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Michael Lovenheim named editor of the Journal of Human Resources

Michael Lovenheim, professor of economics at the ILR School and in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, has been appointed the next editor of the Journal of Human Resources (JHR). Having served as the JHR’s coeditor since 2018, Lovenheim succeeds Anna Aizer (Brown University) and will assume the role on July 1. 

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Nabokov’s Judeo-Christian values informed his creative universe

In “Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe: Themes and Devices,” professor emeritus Gavriel Shapiro argues that Christian faith influenced Nabokov’s imagination and shaped his fiction. 

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Duffield Engineering launches $25M education research institute

With funds from a record-setting naming gift from David A. Duffield ’62, MBA ’64, the Cornell Duffield College of Engineering will establish the $25 million Cornell David A. Duffield Engineering Education Research Institute.

Research helps extend growing seasons in the North Country

Cornell researchers at the Willsboro Research Farm are helping northern New York farmers extend their short growing season through the use of high tunnels.

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Scientists uncover how the intestine balances cell growth and maintenance

A new preclinical study from Weill Cornell Medicine found that a protein long thought to be a foot soldier in the body’s defense against bacterial infection, does not actually help clear invaders the way its close cousin does.

ILR hands out 2026 McPherson honors and faculty awards

ILR faculty and students were recognized at the 33rd annual McPherson Honors and Awards Dinner held on April 20 at the Statler Hotel.

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