Cornell Research & Innovation

National Science Foundation announces Cornell-led AI Materials Institute | Cornell Chronicle The NSF, in partnership with Intel, will invest $20 million over five years to establish the Artificial Intelligence Materials Institute at Cornell, as part of the National Artificial Intelligence Res...

Cornell Tech is helping power the new $20M NSF AI Materials Institute at Cornell! The initiative will build off #CornellTech’s arXiv database, and our K–12 Initiative will help expand STEM access for students: news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

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Blockchain platform securely digitizes public records | Cornell Chronicle Ava Labs, a company with roots at Cornell, recently announced that its Avalanche blockchain platform will be used for the largest deed tokenization project in history.

AvaLabs, which licensed blockchain tech from Cornell’s Center for Technology Licensing, says its Avalanche platform will digitize 370,000 Bergen County property records worth $240B, the largest US deed tokenization project - boosting security and efficiency in real estate.
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Professor Jeremy Baskin has received a major grant from ‪@onoinitiative.bsky.social‬ to study how cells control autophagy through lipid modifications—work that could lead to new therapies for cancer and diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s‬‬‬‬‬

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ONO INITIATIVE 2025 AWARDEES ANNOUNCED The Ono Pharma Foundation was established to support academic research in relevant scientific fields, which have the potential of making significant impact on therapeutic approaches to disease and pai...

The 2025 Ono Initiative Award is presented to @jeremybaskin.bsky.social, Stacy Malaker, ‪@angadmehta.bsky.social‬ as noted. Congratulations!
Jeremy Baskin, Cornel University
Stacy Malaker, Yale University
Angad Mehta, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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‘Breakthrough Science’ grant supports disease-targeting lipid research | Cornell Chronicle A grant from the Ono Pharma Breakthrough Science Initiative, which supports bold new ideas in science, will help Cornell researchers study how chemical modifications to proteins play a powerful role i...

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Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture powers 15 innovative new projects | Cornell Chronicle The Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture has announced the recipients of its 2025 Research Innovation Fund faculty and student grants supporting new, cross-disciplinary projects designed to impro...

Faculty members Tapan Parikh and Thijs Roumen, alongside doctoral student Amritansh Kwatra, received 2025 Research Innovation Fund (RIF) awards from Cornell CIDA!

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Research Scholar Program recipients The Research Scholar Program provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors.

Congrats to Assistant Professors Thijs Roumen and Volodymyr Kuleshov, who have been awarded Google Research Scholar Awards!

Learn more about the program and this year’s recipients 👉 research.google/programs-and...

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People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy This article presents a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI)–generated medical responses are perceived and evaluated by nonexperts. We conducted a study in which a total of 30...

Dr. Chethan Sarabu, director of clinical innovation at the Health Tech Hub at #CornellTech, co-authored a study in NEJM AI, revealing that people tend to overtrust #AI-generated medical advice—even when it's inaccurate.

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We are pleased to announce that Ying Yang, associate director of the Center for Life Science Ventures and the Praxis Center for Venture Development, has accepted a position as interim director of the CLSV!

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Those most willing to address health disparities tend to be overlooked | Cornell Chronicle Cornell researchers found that by prioritizing the perspectives of white Americans instead of those from underrepresented groups, studies of pandemic disparities likely missed important insights from ...

2/6. In a set of experiments just published in Social Science & Medicine, we found that Asian, Black, and Hispanic Americans were consistently more willing to engage in individual and collective efforts to address health disparities than their White counterparts. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Partnership Helps Cornell Student Team Build a Winning Bridge | Cornell Chronicle Cornell’s Steel Bridge Team excelled in the 2024 AISC competition with a 216-pound bridge that supported 2,500 pounds, placing first in lightness. Key to their success was access to the LASSP Student ...

Cornell’s student bridge team designed a 23-ft steel bridge weighing just 216 lbs and holding 2,500 lbs with help from the LASSP Student Machine Shop. They earned top AISC honors in lightness, stiffness & structural economy.

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4-H teens come to Cornell to explore potential career paths | Cornell Chronicle Cornell hosted more than 180 middle and high school students from across New York state for the annual 4-H Career Explorations Conference, held June 25-27.

Imagine having a program where you, as a teen, can explore possible career paths and experience what it's like to live on a college campus. New York State 4-H gives teens from across the state that opportunity every year!
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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.

In a @newyorker.com feature, Professor @informor.bsky.social weighs in on how #AI tools may be reshaping culture.

Naaman says these tools “work covertly, sometimes very powerfully, to change not only what you write but what you think.” @cornellbowers.bsky.social

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Graduate student invited to Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting | Cornell Chronicle Beth Ryan, a graduate student in chemistry and chemical biology working in the Baskin Lab at Cornell’s Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, has been selected as a Young Scientist to attend ...

Beth Ryan, a Cornell chemical biology student in the Baskin Lab, will join 600 top young scientists at the 2025 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. She’ll engage in lectures, panel discussions, and dialogue with 30 Nobel-winning chemists. 🧪

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A new system called #VitalHide, developed by #CornellTech researchers, can block unwanted surveillance of vital signs in wireless health monitoring, while still enabling trusted care.

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Plants use 'weather radar' to sense temperature | Cornell Chronicle For decades, researchers searched for a single “thermosensor”—a biological thermometer buried deep in the plant’s molecular machinery. But a new theory, led by Avilash Singh Yadav, postdoctoral associ...

Plants don't rely on a single thermosensor. Instead, they use a network of proteins, RNAs, and DNA structures to sense temperature—more like a weather radar than a thermostat.

New research from Cornell explains how this insight could reshape crop science: bit.ly/40bvXKy

Gallox Semiconductors, founded by Jonathan McCandless

Gallox Semiconductors, founded by Cornell Ph.D. Jonathan McCandless, is the first to commercialize gallium-oxide chips. The tech promises faster, greener computing with lower energy use: impacting consumer electronics, EVs and space systems!

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A monumental taxonomy unification effort has just been published - thanks to all those who've collaborated for years to make this happen!

Birds of the World - AviList: A Unified Global Checklist of the World’s Birds is Now Available AviList, a unified global checklist of birds, that provides the most current and authoritative taxonomy of birds around the world was released today by experts in taxonomy, nomenclature, and bioinform...

A monumental taxonomy unification effort has just been published - thanks to all those who've collaborated for years to make this happen!
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Kanvas Biosciences harnesses the power of the microbiome | Cornell Chronicle Company was launched through the Center for Life Science Ventures with technology licensed through the Center for Technology Licensing.

Kanvas Biosciences, founded by @Cornell researchers, is advancing microbiome therapeutics with HiPR-FISH, a tool to map gut bacteria at single-cell precision. Their lead drug KAN-001 outperformed mice super stool transplants and is heading to clinical trials! 🧪

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Research at risk: Breaking down barriers for autistic job seekers | Cornell Chronicle A project examining how to help companies hire neurodivergent people has received a termination order, halting work that could have helped autistic people find jobs and employers find talent.

Read the full article, part of Cornell University's "Research at Risk" series: news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

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Smolka named associate vice provost in Research & Innovation | Cornell Chronicle Smolka, a biochemist and former interim director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, will support life sciences across the university.

Congrats to Prof. Marcus Smolka, named Associate Vice Provost for Biological systems at @Cornell Research & Innovation! 🎉 He will lead efforts in life sciences, supporting biomedical, agricultural & molecular biology research across campuses.

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Flowers unfold with surprising precision, despite unruly genes | Cornell Chronicle Flowers grow stems, leaves and petals in a perfect pattern again and again. A new Cornell study shows that even in this precise, patterned formation in plants, gene activity inside individual cells is...

How do flowers grow with such precision, even when their genes behave unpredictably?

Cornell CALS researchers found that plants use "spatial averaging" to smooth genetic chaos, a discovery published in Nature Comms with big implications for biology & bioengineering. 🧪🧬

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Abruña receives 2025 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences | Cornell Chronicle Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is honored for his pivotal contributions to understanding electrochemical processes.

Cornell’s Héctor D. Abruña wins the 2025 Dreyfus Prize in Chemical Sciences for groundbreaking work on electrochemical interfaces: using X-rays, TEM & mass spectrometry to advance energy storage in batteries, fuel cells & supercapacitors. ⚡🔬

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Snapshot shows Cornell’s impact on local economy | Cornell Chronicle Cornell drives economic growth in Ithaca and region via student and visitor spending, increased entrepreneurship, taxes and fees, and contributions to local municipalities and nonprofits.

Cornell drives local economic growth in Ithaca and New York!

$23.2M raised in 2024 by Rev Startup Incubator, Praxis Center and Center for Life Science Ventures & $23M in research funding invested in our community.

See how we're boosting economies in Ithaca, NY and Tompkins County 📈 bit.ly/4mzigP5

Our Summer Workshop schedule is up! Join us for a series of hands-on workshops on Dimension Reduction. PCA, CCA, PCoA, NMDS, CA - we will be covering all the acronyms! Free and open to all at Cornell. For more info: cscu.cornell.edu
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