Chemistry professor honored for work on biodegradable polymers

Geoffrey Coates was named a co-winner of the prestigious Balzan Prize for his work transforming renewable feedstocks and recovered carbon dioxide into high-performance, degradable and recyclable materials.

Good vibes: Phones promote shared space, not silos, in Arts Quad installation

“Vibe Coating” integrates green-screen technology and AI to visualize participants' prompts as an immersive, continuously changing environment.

Cornell Unplugged encourages mindful tech use, social connection

New event asks the community to decrease technology use, increase face-to-face interaction and consider that every AI chat, doomscroll and text message has a water, energy and carbon footprint. 

Cornellians to address AI, NY energy future at Climate Week NYC

Cornell and global leaders will come together at Climate Week NYC Sept. 20-27 to discuss some of the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges, including harnessing AI’s power while mitigating its negative impacts.

Podcast celebrates Cornell earning #4 ranking in entrepreneurship

This month's Startup Cornell podcast featured a conversation between two campus leaders of Cornell's entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Around Cornell

Midterm forecast strongly favors Democrats to win House majority

The forecast model developed by Peter Enns and graduate students is highly accurate historically, correctly predicting winners of the previous 14 congressional elections.

‘Rivers of Ice’ exhibit offers lens on glaciers’ retreat

The exhibition featuring books, maps and other visual materials related to the study of glaciers and the Earth’s shifting climate opens Sept. 17 at the Hirshland Exhibition Gallery of Carl A. Kroch Library.

Cornell science educator David Kornreich, Ph.D. ’01, dies at 52

David Kornreich, Ph.D. ’01, who taught physics and astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Aug. 30 in a plane crash near Ithaca. Kornreich, a native of Houston, Texas, was 52.

Edouard Kopp named director of the Johnson Museum

Edouard Kopp, chief curator of the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, has been named the next director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell.