From farm to kitchen, Ficio is teaching robots about food

Ficio, a startup founded by Youhanna Meleka, M.Eng. ’26, is developing an AI platform for the food supply chain that can run on different machines and tackle very different jobs – from sorting apples in an orchard to turning potatoes into french fries.

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Conservation Lab gets ‘refresh’ with help from donors

With a lead gift from Jim Irish '74 and Andrea Glanz '74, Cornell University Library's Conservation Lab gets vital upgrades.

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Culberg joins NASA effort to probe rapidly changing Arctic glaciers

Riley Culberg, assistant professor, is a member of the science team for Snow4Flow, a new NASA mission to study how much ice glaciers contain and how much new snow they receive.

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Soprano Dawn Upshaw visits campus as A.D. White Professor-at-Large

Upshaw, winner of five Grammys and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, will present “Salon Solèy: Inhabiting Text & Music in Contemporary American Art Song,” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 in Barnes Hall.

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Chemist elected fellow of American Physical Society

John Marohn, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).

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EPICC Awards recognize commitment to Duffield Engineering’s core values

The Cornell Duffield College of Engineering celebrated its fifth annual EPICC Awards on Oct. 8 in Statler Auditorium, recognizing faculty and staff whose work exemplifies the college’s core values of excellence, purpose, innovation, community and collaboration.

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Bigler shares fair chance hiring best practices with N.Y. lawyers

Esta Bigler, director of Labor Law and Employment Programs at the ILR School, presented on the topic of fair chance hiring at the New York State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section fall meeting, held in Ithaca earlier this month. 

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Cornell biologist named Blavatnik Award finalist for work with rewilded mice

Matthew Zipple was named a Blavatnik Regional Award finalist for showing how natural environments can reshape behavior and health.

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October lectures explore autocracy, communism and U.S.-China-Russia relations

Cornell University’s “Unmasking the CCP” lecture series will feature talks by former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul Oct. 23 and historian Frank Dikötter Oct. 27 on democracy, communism and China’s international role. 

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