Twenty-three receive awards recognizing excellence and impact

The Graduate Excellence and Impact Awards recognized members of the graduate community for their impacts on advancing access, engagement and belonging through service and leadership.

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Faculty excellence in teaching and advising honored with 2026 awards

Annual A&S teaching and advising awards celebrate the dedication, generosity and enthusiasm of instructors who reach beyond expectations to benefit their students. 

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Student-created galleries explore Indonesian collection

The student installation, “Indonesia Embodied: Performing the Space Between” complements the museum’s "Hum of Life" exhibition. 

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From the Living Lab: Students tackle campus trash and food waste

From donating excess dining hall food to surveying their peers' leftovers, students reduce waste and make campus more sustainable. 

David Lodge, ecologist and Cornell Atkinson director, to retire

David Lodge, ecologist and director of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, will retire May 22, 2026.

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Prof. Jolene Rickard receives Lifetime Achievement Award

A citizen of the Skarù·ręʔ / Tuscarora Nation (Hodinöhsö:ni Confederacy), Joline K. Rickard is honored for work that has had a profound impact on contemporary Indigenous art and scholarship.  

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McGraw construction melds modern with historical

As McGraw Hall, one of the university’s oldest buildings, is rebuilt from the inside out, workers have made several discoveries, and faculty are reusing and studying materials from the building in the classroom.

Study abroad propels careers of graduating seniors

Every year, around 2,000 Cornell students say a temporary goodbye to their lives in Ithaca – in pursuit of international experiences outside their comfort zone. Their time studying abroad gave graduating seniors Kevin Chang and Ana Hoffman Sole knowledge of new places, new skills and rich new communities. Now they’re looking ahead to career paths that build on what they learned.

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New instrument will map the formation of early galaxies

Cornell astronomers are deploying a new instrument that grants them, for the first time, a better view of the universe’s earliest galaxies, which can’t be observed individually with ground- or space-based telescopes.