After a 10-week summer program, twelve Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator (JSSA) student startups pitched their companies and shared their progress at Demo Day on Sept. 9 at the Sage Atrium in Ithaca, New York.
Cornell researchers partnered with 10 New York state livestock farmers using devices that record sales and process credit card payments and analyzed market transactions to better understand customer behavior and help farmers increase their profits at farmers markets.
Nineteen individuals and three teams received President’s Awards for Employee Excellence – including a new award, Culture of Sustainability – during a celebration held Nov. 15 in Barton Hall and online.
The Cornell-sponsored Congressional Staff Peace Games brought high level House and Senate staff members together to game plan a nonviolent response to a simulated international crisis. Steve Israel, director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, directed the event.
Weill Cornell Medicine associate professor Gregory F. Sonnenberg has been awarded a five-year, $3.26 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the underlying mechanisms of inflammatory bowel disease.
The free Merlin Bird ID app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology just hit a major milestone: The digital field guide and ID assistant can now help users identify birds in any country – a grand total of 10,315 species.
At a luncheon on May 21, 42 Merrill Scholars celebrated the mentors who had the greatest influence on their early education and the Cornell faculty or staff members who contributed most significantly to their college experience.
Cornell honored its military community at the second annual Military/Veterans Reception, celebrating achievements including Cornell’s designation as a Purple Heart University, the only Ivy League institution to receive that recognition.
On Dec. 12, Jamila Michener offered expert testimony during a New York State Senate committee hearing focused on the causes and effects of poverty in the state’s small and midsized cities.