Planning a wedding? Tim Chi '98 knows what you need

The next episode of the Startup Cornell podcast features Chi, co-founder of Blackboard and former CEO and co-founder of WeddingWire, which merged with XO Group in 2008 to form The Knot Worldwide. 

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Droids descend on Cornell for robotics conference

The Northeastern Robotics Conference (NERC), held Saturday, Oct. 11 at Cornell, featured more than 100 robots research projects from the region, including a shadowboxing droid and a backflipping robot dog.

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Researchers receive NIH MERIT award to map T cell development over time

The grant will fund the Rudd and De Vlaminck lab’s research on CD8+ T cell activation and development throughout early life and into adulthood. 

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Marie Reith’s 1916 vow to ‘do good’ lives on in new scholarship

More than a century after pioneering engineer Marie Reith vowed to “do some good” in the world, her legacy endures through the new Marie Reith Class of 1921 Scholarship. Funded by Herb Fontecilla ’66, M.Eng. ’67, the gift honors the woman who helped him begin his Cornell journey and will support future first-generation engineers.

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Wildfire smoke, regenerative ag: Cornell Atkinson-EDF research aids people and planet

The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and long-time collaborator Environmental Defense Fund announce their 2025 awardees for joint research and seek new proposals for 2026 initiatives.

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Engineering launches new Office of Innovation and External Collaboration

A newly restructured, student-focused Office of Innovation and External Collaboration will prepare Cornell Engineering students for career success and provide a clear point of entry to industry partners and employers looking to engage with the college’s students and faculty.

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Fuchs, Hartman elected to American Physical Society

Greg Fuchs, the James R. Meehl Professor in School of Applied and Engineering Physics, and Thomas Hartman, professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, have been elected as fellows of the American Physical Society.

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Kim named inaugural William L. Maxwell Postdoctoral Fellow

Younghoon Kim has been named the inaugural William L. Maxwell ’56 Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell’s Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society. 

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Programmable optical chip merges photons to change color

Cornell researchers have built a programmable optical chip that can change the color of light by merging photons, without requiring a new chip for new colors – technology that could potentially be used for classical and quantum communications networks.