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Winter Session 2027 registration is now open

Registration is now open for Cornell University’s online Winter Session. Classes run Jan. 4–22, giving students the opportunity to explore an interest, fulfill a requirement, or earn credits before the spring semester.  

Around Cornell

Amy Lewis Sweetman '08 forges beauty from the past

Sweetman ‘08, artist and owner of Agrisculpture, is the guest of the October Startup Cornell podcast. Sweetman creates metalwork sculptures that use antique farm equipment and are informed by nature. She’s the artist behind the Apple sculpture on the Ithaca Commons and recently created a piece as a memorial to the fallen heroes of Ukraine. 

Around Cornell

Trading power reductions could reduce data center strain on energy grid

Researchers proposed a novel way to manage the increased demand for electricity by data centers: a credit market that would allow centers that are facing required cutbacks to pay flexible energy users to take on their obligations when the grid is strained. 

Black women in food industries face systemic roadblocks

A new report authored by researchers from the Nolan Hotel School found that structural inequities – such as lack of access to capital investment – play an outsize role in Black women’s entrepreneurial journeys in the food industry.

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham ’86 to talk startups Oct. 28

Graham will give a lecture titled “How to Turn Yourself Into a Startup Founder” in Kennedy Hall’s Call Auditorium.

A synthetic answer to the squeak in aging joints 

Two Cornell researchers join forces to produce a substance that could keep knees, hips and shoulders gliding smoothly for a lifetime.

‘Let me explain’: Corporate disclosures can take a circuitous route

In financial disclosures, particularly by companies that are coming out of tough times, a firm’s verbal circuitousness can paint a fuller picture of a company’s prospects, a Cornell research group found.

Creative tourism plan fosters forest protection, economic growth in Puerto Rico

A collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business aims to shape sustainable tourism development for Puerto Rico’s El Yunque National Forest.

What ‘healthy’ labeling on packaged food conceals

Looking for nutritious foods in the grocery store? Don't believe everything you read.