Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture powers 15 innovative new projects

The Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture has announced the recipients of its 2025 Research Innovation Fund faculty and student grants supporting new, cross-disciplinary projects designed to improve global food systems via digital innovation.

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How a COVID study uncovered the research ‘pivot penalty’

A study that initially looked at the career impacts of shifting one's research to the COVID pandemic revealed that any researcher who changes their focus to a new field can face a serious "pivot penalty."

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‘Summit’ on LLMs rallies leading AI experts

Leading AI scholars met to discuss fundamental design problems and systemic issues with large language models (LLMs) and how they could better serve the global population.

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Fei Wang named senior faculty fellow in clinical AI at Cornell Tech

Wang's newly established role will strengthen Cornell Tech’s leadership in digital health and artificial intelligence, while also expanding interdisciplinary collaboration between Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine.

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Colanzi wins Zinklar Award for short fiction

Liliana Colanzi’s award is the first Zinklar Prize to honor Spanish language fiction.

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Faculty-led startup is using AI to reimagine software reliability

Cornell Tech Assistant Professor Raaz Dwivedi has co-founded Traversal, a startup emerging from stealth this week with a mission: to transform how modern software systems detect and resolve outages using artificial intelligence.

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Social media can amplify worker voice, but fades over time

Social media can influence workplace policies by amplifying worker voices, but fail to drive meaningful workplace improvement when workers lack support from labor unions or civil society organizations, according to new research by Duanyi Yang, assistant professor at the ILR School. 

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Cornell astronomers win time on James Webb Space Telescope

The "premier telescope in space right now" will start a fourth annual cycle of observations on July 1, and three early-career astronomy researchers in A&S are PI or co-PI on observation programs chosen from a very competitive field.

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CCE Specialist Adam Hughes appointed to national health and well-being leadership role

Cornell Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) Adam Hughes, MPH, has been appointed to a national-level leadership position with the Extension Foundation, where he will support national Cooperative Extension health and well-being initiatives.

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