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October 30, 2026

Ariel Goodwin, a doctoral candidate in Cornell’s Center for Applied Mathematics, has received the 2026 INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize celebrating an outstanding student-led paper in optimization.

October 30, 2026

The expo brought together companies in fields from robotics to defense to health tech to food.

October 22, 2026

Scientists found evidence of infections in bear blood samples acquired from Greenland Inuit subsistence hunters. 

October 21, 2026

An insect-driven disease that causes high mortality in white-tailed deer, and mimics the symptoms of foot and mouth disease in cattle, is still rare in New York state, but the warming climate may increase its spread, Cornell researchers found.

October 20, 2026

Reducing damage to the nuclei of heart muscle cells improved heart function and dramatically extended survival in mice with a form of inherited heart disease, according to a new study led by Cornell researchers.

October 19, 2026

Birds play an outsized, underappreciated role in shaping Earth’s chemistry, distributing nutrients across oceans, forests and coral reefs and sustaining life far beyond the nest, according to a new scientific review.

October 19, 2026

Registration is now open for Cornell University’s online Winter Session. Classes run Jan. 4–22, giving students the opportunity to explore an interest, fulfill a requirement, or earn credits before the spring semester.  

October 14, 2026

As solar grazing expands across the country, new research helps sheep farmers increase profitability and sheds light on the how the number of sheep in solar array fields interacts with beneficial insects.

October 14, 2026

The Cornell-led multi-institutional Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems will continue work to transform agriculture by enabling direct two-way communication with crop plants’ internal processes. 

October 7, 2026

A new engineered gene editing system addresses some of the limitations of current gene editing tools with the hope of improving their use for research, for better crops or to treat diseases.   

October 7, 2026

Matthew Zipple was named a Blavatnik Regional Award finalist for showing how natural environments can reshape behavior and health.

October 7, 2026

Two Cornell researchers join forces to produce a substance that could keep knees, hips and shoulders gliding smoothly for a lifetime.