Committee to recommend final expressive activity policy

The committee of faculty members, students and staff has begun a review of the university’s interim expressive activity policy and will recommend a final policy early in the fall semester.

Community college transfers flourish at Cornell

Graduating transfer students from SUNY and CUNY community colleges reflect on their journeys – as well as the support, opportunity and community they've found at Cornell.

AI may improve doctor-patient interactions for older adults with cancer

Researchers have developed an AI tool that uses machine learning and large language models to identify treatment options based on patients’ diagnoses, demographic information and priorities.

Newest EEG lab empowers faculty from multiple disciplines

Cornell's newest interdisciplinary EEG lab could help faculty make breakthroughs in fields ranging from psychology to neurology to artificial intelligence. 

Around Cornell

Twelve doctoral candidates lobby on Capitol Hill

Twelve doctoral candidates traveled from the Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City to Capitol Hill April 17 for the annual Cornell Ph.D. Student Advocacy Day.

Around Cornell

Joan Klein Jacobs ’54, transformational philanthropist, dies at 91

Joan Klein Jacobs ’54, a global philanthropist who believed strongly in the power of education and the arts to transform lives, died May 6 in San Diego. She was 91.  

Four faculty receive 2024 Carpenter Advising Awards

Faculty members from the ILR School and the colleges of Human Ecology and of Arts and Sciences have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize sustained and distinguished contributions to advising undergraduates. 

Resident-to-resident aggression common in assisted living

One in six assisted living facility residents is subject to verbal, physical or other aggression by a fellow resident in a typical month, according to the first large-scale study of the phenomenon.

Freedom of Expression-themed dinners focus on choice

“Botticelli’s Banquet,” an Italian Renaissance-themed dinner held April 23 in Keeton House, featured Tuscan-inspired ingredients and a customizable, house-made pizza – evoking the period’s newfound freedom of expression.