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Cornell College of Arts & Sciences physicist and astronomer David Kornreich, Ph.D. ’01, died Aug. 30 in a plane crash near Ithaca while piloting his aircraft. He was researcher and science communicator known for galaxy studies and astronomy outreach.
Season 2 of Cornell's Research Matters podcast launches Aug. 25 with 18 episodes on how academic discoveries translate into practical insights that shape everyday life and society. Cornell College of Arts and Sciences faculty from astronomy, government, physics and psychology will be featured in the new season.
Gabriella Carini, a Brookhaven National Laboratory leader, will begin as director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) Oct. 1. She will oversee facility expansion, advanced synchrotron research initiatives and new X-ray beamlines supporting interdisciplinary scientific discovery.
Physics researchers in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences developed a new framework to study how biomolecular condensates form and dissolve in cells. The tool reveals general rules of cellular organization and could help identify drug targets for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other condensate-related diseases.
Cornell University researchers secure $1.2 million in DOE Genesis Mission funding. Two AI-driven projects, one led by physics researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences, will advance energy system modeling and accelerate materials discovery by predicting electronic properties before materials are synthesized.
arXiv will leave Cornell July 1 to become an independent nonprofit . The platform, which came to Cornell in 2001 with founder Paul Ginsparg, physics professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, now exceeds 3 million research submissions.
Cornell College of Arts and Sciences undergraduates are among the 2026 Jiang Fellows completing global startup internships. This Cornell Duffield College of Engineering program is open to all juniors at Cornell interested in entrepreneurship.
Cornell researchers including physics professor Robert Thorne announce a new method for freezing embryos 30 times father than current protocols. The method could be used to improve assisted reproduction in animals and humans, including IVF, or to conserve biodiversity.
For her volunteer outreach encouraging local children to learn about physics and reading, Abra Geiger ’26 has won the 2026 University Relations Campus-Community Leadership Award.
Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences honors the winners of its 2026 teaching and advising awards. Faculty members Nicole Giannella, Karola Mészáros and Landon Schnabel stand out this year, earning major awards for excellence; many instructors and teaching assistants received recognition, as well.
Researchers in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences report on the first observations with the Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME). The instrument uses a technique called line-intensity mapping to explore the early universe.
Alexander Won is majoring in physics and mathematics.
Abra Geiger is majoring in physics and mathematics.
Research led by Z. Jane Wang, professor of physics in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, shows the effect of insects’ morphology on stabilizing their flight using a computational model. At stake: new understanding of evolution of animal flight and a blueprint for designing flapping-wing robots.
Cornell University's Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) was formally inaugurated on April 9 in Chile's Atacama Desert, marking a new era in submillimeter astronomy. The CCAT Observatory partnership telescope, led by Cornell, will map galaxy formation, cosmic microwave background radiation, and the epoch of reionization in the submillimeter range faster than any previous instrument.
Physicist Dan Ralph, Ph.D. ’93, F.R. Newman Professor of Physics in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, is one of two faculty members elected to the National Academy of Sciences. April 28, the academy announced 120 members and 25 international members elected this year.
Brad Ramshaw, associate professor of physics in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, led a team measuring the movement of soundwaves rather than the flow of heat in Majorana fermions. The team discovered the thermal Hall effect in these particles was caused by chiral phonons.
Georg Hoffstaetter de Torquat, professor of physics in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, is leading a $2.9 million Department of Energy grant to teach AI to operate particle accelerators. Based at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the collaboration will train AI systems on computer models of two hitherto human-run accelerators.
Lawrence Gibbons, professor of physics in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, is among muon g-2 researchers awarded the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Working with Fermilab, Gibbons led measurements of a particle called the muon with implications for understanding the subatomic world.
Cornell University celebrates April 9 inauguration of Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope in Chile. President Michael Kotlikoff marked milestone enabling wide-field submillimeter surveys to study dark energy, early universe conditions, and galaxy evolution.
The first phase of Cornell University’s upcoming reaccreditation process with Middle States Commission on Higher Education is underway, with the naming of a steering committee that includes several College of Arts and Sciences faculty members and an invitation to the community to provide input.
Cornell admits the Class of 2030 emphasizing real-world impact, enrolling 5,776 students from 102 countries. At Cornell University, the diverse cohort reflects the land-grant mission and applied learning goals across multiple colleges.
Nobel Laureate physicist John M. Martinis will headline a quantum mechanics lecture April 8 at Cornell University. The talk launches the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board’s Frontiers of Discovery Lecture Series.
Education researcher Dr. Susan Singer will discuss the future of active learning and discipline-based education research on April 7 at Cornell University’s Fiske Room, Uris Library. Hosted by the Center for Teaching Innovation, the event highlights her national leadership in STEM education reform and evidence-based undergraduate teaching innovations.
Since the early days of modern cosmic exploration, Cornell scientists have led the way, from guiding rovers through the red dust of Mars to searching for other life in the universe; and from modeling exotic stars to detecting the faint ripples of gravitational waves.
Cornell physicists and Google researchers wondered whether LLMs could understand scientific literature at the level of a specialist.
Neti Bhatt, physics is one of nine Cornell research degree students who will advance to the final round of the 2026 Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT).
The Assessing and Imagining the Impact of Generative AI on Science Symposium, March 3-5, will feature experts from across academia and industry engaging in discussions on the use and implications of generative AI.
Researchers have found that quantum systems in a frozen state can be stabilized long enough to be a useful strategy for preserving information before it disappears.
Five Cornell faculty members are among 126 early-career researchers across North America who have won 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Cornell researchers interested in diverse topics ranging from peptide engineering and cellular metabolites to quantum physics and sustainable computing are among the newest cohort selected by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows program.
CTI’s “The Art of Teaching” series returns Feb. 11 with “The Art of the Lab.” Faculty panelists will share creative instructional approaches for designing student-centered laboratory experiences.
Four Cornell faculty members are among 99 researchers across the U.S. who have been awarded grants by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its Office of Science Early Career Research Program.
The 12 early-career scholars will pursue research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
In 2026, the from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will begin funding 10 two-year postdoctoral appointments including three in astronomy, chemistry and physics in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Behind a world-leading telescope bound for Chile is a team of engineers, machinists, electronics specialists and riggers at Cornell. Meet the specialized staff whose expertise is helping push cosmology to new frontiers.
Researchers discovered that DNA packaging structures called nucleosomes, which have been traditionally seen as roadblocks for gene expression, actually help reduce torsional stress in DNA strands and facilitate genetic information decoding.
In 2025, Cornell produced cutting-edge AI research, inaugurated a president and advanced agriculture and sustainability. The university’s faculty, staff, students and alumni made the world a better place, welcomed back two Nobel laureate alumni and conducted research that matters.
A new study shows that using large language models like ChatGPT boosts paper production, especially for non-native English speakers, but the overall increase in AI-written papers is making it harder to separate the valuable contributions from the AI slop.
Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go – or don’t go – in certain layered materials.
With a 2024-2025 Innovative Teaching & Learning Grant, A&S professors collaborated with others to develope an AI tool to foster student metacognitive skills around teamwork in STEM classes.
Kylie Williamson ’26 has been named Navy/Marines Student of the Year by Navy Federal Credit Union, a top honor in the Reserve Officers Training Corps system. Williamson is the first Cornell student to win the award.
New grant funding will support eight research projects seeking to reduce AI’s energy use and integrate AI in environmental research.
"Nexus Scholars was the first time where the only thing I had to worry about was research."
The portraits are part of a series by Christopher Michel, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s inaugural artist-in-residence.
Using a Cornell-built instrument and Cornell-built high-speed detector, a team of researchers captured atomically thin materials responding to light with a dynamic twisting motion.
Reppy was recognized along with David Bishop, Ph.D. ’78, for "groundbreaking experiments" they did on helium 50 years ago.
Seiberg, professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, will explore string theory and other aspects of scientific progress.
Researchers develop a new bacterium that can absorb DNA directly from its surroundings and incorporate it into its own genetic code.
Cornell researchers and collaborators have developed a neural implant so small that it can rest on a grain of salt, yet it can wirelessly transmit brain activity data in a living animal for more than a year.