Through their research programs, the 2026 fellows are advancing new tools and insights to inform conservation strategies, strengthen disease management, and promote sustainable systems that benefit wildlife, people, and the planet.
Led by Cornell, a new analysis offers seven practical recommendations and other guidance on how organizations and researchers can use open practices more effectively.
Claire Choi '28 transformed her engineering research into CO2, a space-based artwork exploring humanity's relationship with carbon dioxide that was selected for the Xu Bing Space Art Residency Program and recorded aboard an orbiting satellite.
Cornell University’s James Watkins and Kade Keranen are leading a nearly $240,000 study to examine the abundance of mysid, small, shrimp-like crustaceans that are critical links in Lake Ontario’s aquatic food web.
John Abowd, professor emeritus of economics, statistics, and data science at Cornell and Lars Vilhuber, research professor and executive director of ILR’s Labor Dynamics Institute, have received the 2026 Caspar Bowden PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
