In between classes and extracurriculars, students showcasing their tech-based projects in the 2025 annual Bits On Our Minds could have been seeing friends or catching up on sleep. Instead they were using their free time to brainstorm, experiment, code and create.
Donald Hartill, a professor of physics emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences and a driving force behind decades of experimental research in particle physics, died on April 16. He was 86.
Researchers identified a likely source of activity in a “zombie” volcano that appeared to be dormant for more than 250,000 years: molten rock releasing gas that pushes against the volcano’s upper crust.
In collaboration with farmers, researchers found that emission intensities from New York state dairy farms were lower per gallon of milk than national estimates and among the lowest reported across continents.
On what would have been astronomer and planetary scientist Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday, Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute will celebrate his legacy in an interdisciplinary day of science, music and more as part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series.
Lecturer Corey Ryan Earle ’07, Cornell’s unofficial historian, gave the latest installment in the Last Lecture series, which invites a respected staff member or professor to give a lecture as if it were their final one.
For the first time, the annual Lauren Pickard ’90 Emerging Artists Series in Willard Straight Hall, held Nov. 14, included an art gallery of student work. The event traditionally showcased up-and-coming musical acts.
The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Andrea Ippolito ’06 MEng ‘07, CEO and founder of SimpliFed.
SimpliFed has launched and scaled a maternal health operating system,…
The newest episode of the Startup Cornell podcast features Trisha Beher ’25, founder of Women Leaders of Color at Cornell and the Art Shine Foundation.