Cornell University

Cornell University Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, USA

Founded in 1865 and opened on October 7, 1868, Cornell has been described as the first American university. Co-founders Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White wanted Cornell to be open to all students, regardless of sex, race, religion, nationality, or ability to pay. Their egalitarian and practical vision of higher education, revolutionary in 1865, still informs the guiding principles of the unive

rsity in the 21st century. Cornell’s combination of joint identities is unique among leading institutions of higher education—it is the federal land-grant institution of New York State, a private endowed university, a member of the Ivy League (or Ancient Eight), and a partner of the State University of New York. The university is dedicated to its original mission of accessibility and opportunity, outreach, and public service.

Fifty years of sweet tradition continued last month at the Dyce Lab for Honey Bee Studies, where community members gathe...
09/01/2026

Fifty years of sweet tradition continued last month at the Dyce Lab for Honey Bee Studies, where community members gathered for the lab's annual honey extraction event, getting a firsthand look at how honey goes from hive to jar.

Quiet moments from across Cornell.
08/31/2026

Quiet moments from across Cornell.

Big Red is back at it. After a great first week of classes, the Hill is humming with energy, and the new semester is off...
08/28/2026

Big Red is back at it. After a great first week of classes, the Hill is humming with energy, and the new semester is off to a strong start.

Researchers at Cornell have created an interactive map identifying 1.8 million individual trees in New York City, with a...
08/26/2026

Researchers at Cornell have created an interactive map identifying 1.8 million individual trees in New York City, with a new approach that could optimize the placement of trees for cooling in cities around the world.

In the study, researchers identify the types of trees using satellite imagery as well as on-the-ground datasets and 3D data collected with lidar, short for light detection and ranging. The approach was 82% accurate overall and higher for common types of New York City trees.

It's the first “wall-to-wall,” citywide map identifying trees in natural areas and other unsurveyed areas, which together constitute an estimated 65% of the city's canopy and have not been accounted for on previous maps.

The research team will use the map to determine which trees are best for cooling, and the data could inform a host of other planting decisions where the type of tree makes a difference, from reducing allergens to managing invasive pests.

Read more: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/08/wall-wall-map-nyc-trees-could-help-cool-cities-worldwide

08/25/2026

Last spring, Research Matters set out to show how Cornell scholarship routinely bursts out of the lab and library. Now the video podcast series, back for a second season, ranges even further, from an emergency room to a courtroom, from a basketball court out to the universe itself.

The 18-episode season launches with “Why Don’t We Do the Things We Know We Should?” In it, Cornell behavioral economist Suzanne Shu – an electrical engineer turned behavioral economist – breaks down the psychology behind procrastination, overspending and our strange attachment to stuff in order to illustrate why willpower isn’t the problem, and what actually helps.

Learn more about season two of Research Matters and check out the full episode below. Subscribe on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts for the latest episodes.

Researchers have pinpointed the source of oxygen that sustains deep-sea life in the North Atlantic Ocean: the churning w...
08/25/2026

Researchers have pinpointed the source of oxygen that sustains deep-sea life in the North Atlantic Ocean: the churning waters in the Labrador Sea.

The study, published in Nature Geoscience on Aug. 17, gives heightened significance to the Labrador Sea, sandwiched between Greenland and Newfoundland. There, waters from the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the ocean’s major current system, turn in a gyre, and oxygen-rich surface waters mix with deeper waters. Previous research had found that the Labrador Sea has little impact on the strength of AMOC, but the study finds it plays a critical role in oxygen transport.

“We found that the Labrador Sea exports enough oxygen to meet the biological need across a vast part of the deep North Atlantic Ocean, so it’s very likely crucial to sustain these deep sea ecosystems,” said first author Una Miller, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University.

“Our finding shows that if we’re going to understand the future, especially in the face of these deoxygenation trends, you can’t just look at the strength of AMOC, you also have to understand processes in the Labrador Sea.”

“No one’s successfully sustained multiple years of oxygen measurements on moorings like these before, so that was one breakthrough, along with a machine learning method to fill in gaps so we could map these oxygen values,” said senior author Jaime Palter of the URI Graduate School of Oceanography. “Now we know the rate of oxygenation, we know the processes, and we can link it with other work to show that the current needs to take this last step in the Labrador Sea in order for ecosystems to function.”

Read more: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/08/life-deep-atlantic-depends-labrador-sea

Day one of a new Cornell academic year is officially in the books. Take a glimpse at this year's first day of classes on...
08/24/2026

Day one of a new Cornell academic year is officially in the books.

Take a glimpse at this year's first day of classes on the Hill.

08/24/2026

Join us in wishing our Cornellians the best of luck as a new academic year begins!

Scenes from around Cornell's campus this week as the university welcomes its newest Cornellians to the Hill — a big mome...
08/21/2026

Scenes from around Cornell's campus this week as the university welcomes its newest Cornellians to the Hill — a big moment for the whole Big Red community to celebrate.

“Every single one of you is here, because we saw something special in you that meant you belonged at Cornell,” President...
08/21/2026

“Every single one of you is here, because we saw something special in you that meant you belonged at Cornell,” President Michael I. Kotlikoff told the nearly 4,300 first-year and transfer students who, with their families, gathered August 18 at Schoellkopf Field for New Student Convocation.

“So if at some point in the months ahead, when you’re wrestling with a problem set or a paper, and you start to wonder if maybe somebody in Admissions made a mistake – I can tell you right now, they did not,” Kotlikoff said. “You are a Cornellian. And this is where you belong.”

Read more: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/08/new-students-encouraged-embrace-community

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