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Models feel hemmed in by AI

Using generative AI, fashion designers can use digital photos to adjust models’ features and even deploy fully digital avatars in place of humans. A team including an ILR School researcher has written a paper highlighting models’ challenges.

Cornell awarded NSF grant to build AI-ready living lab for agriculture

Cornell University has been awarded a portion of a $2 million planning initiative from the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish AI4Ag, a national testbed for artificial intelligence in agriculture.

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New-student service program is back after two-year hiatus

Pre-Orientation Service Trips, a program that offers incoming students four days of service, reflection and community-building, drew 40 first-year and transfer students together with six senior team leaders and two sophomores.

2025-26 Call for Nominations: A.D. White Professors-at-Large Program

Cornell faculty members, academic departments, or groups of departments are invited to submit nominations of distinguished scholars and artists for the A.D. White Professors-at-Large Program by Monday, November 24. 

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Familiarity breeds success for fledgling companies

Teams featuring at least one “stranger” – someone unknown by the team before its formation – are more than twice as likely to fail as teams of friends, family members or co-workers, a new study out of the Nolan Hotel School has revealed.

Tiny explosions, soft materials make onscreen braille more robust

By combining the design principles and materials of soft robotics with microscale combustions, researchers created a high-resolution electronic tactile display that can operate in messy, unpredictable environments.

Journalist offers master class on op-eds, narrative storytelling

Journalist and biographer Sam Tanenhaus will share his writing expertise with the Cornell community in a master class, “Op-Eds and Narrative Storytelling, on Oct. 8 in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.

Health policy survey launches with insight on Medicaid work requirements

Most health policy experts don’t think new Medicaid work requirements introduced in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would substantially increase employment among Medicaid-enrolled, working-age adults, according to a new survey from the Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel.

‘Bottling’ human intuition for AI-led materials discovery

A Cornell researcher and collaborators have developed a machine-learning model that encapsulates and quantifies the valuable intuition of human experts in the quest to discover new quantum materials.

Record-breaking night of bird migration detected with radar

More than 1.2 billion birds streamed south Thursday night, the largest single-night total ever recorded by the live radar project BirdCast.  

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Midwest art installation pushes boundaries of urban space

For Exhibit Columbus - a prominent stage for emerging designers - Michael Jefferson and Suzanne Lettieri used chromakeyed colors to create an "urban cinema screen" at a downtown plaza.

Key DNA-repair pathway repurposed when gut pathogens invade

A new study in fruit flies describes how an animal’s gut reacts differently to beneficial microbes versus harmful pathogens.