News
Course introduces students to constructive disagreement
8+ hour, 23+ min ago (600+ words) By | Kathy Hovis , Cornell Chronicle At the end of every one of his Wednesday evening classes, Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences, asks students two questions: How many of you changed your mind about this…...
Testing large language models on scientific literature
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (595+ words) By | Kate Blackwood , Cornell Chronicle To stay up to date and work forward in their fields, scientists must have at their fingertips and in their minds thousands of published studies. Large language models (LLMs) show promise as a tool for…...
Computational biologist receives NIH NDRI Pilot Award
3+ week, 6+ day ago (335+ words) Computational biologist receives NIH NDRI Pilot Award'Cornell University Computational biologist receives NIH NDRI Pilot Award Molecular biology and genetics By | Staff , A&S Communications Ayshwarya Subramanian, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences,…...
Helping urban youth use AI to navigate the future
1+ mon, 9+ hour ago (411+ words) By | Kathy Hovis , Cornell Chronicle When Christian Gant-Madison "25 looks at youth growing up in the Philadelphia neighborhood he came from, he knows the cycle of violence and trauma that can keep kids stuck in a bad situation. Through his non-profit,…...
Online dating seem awful? The reason may lie in evolution
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (286+ words) By | Beth Saulnier , Cornellians "I spent a long time imagining that I'm talking to somebody who is single and struggling, because they're not meeting people or not clicking with anybody," Arts & Sciences alum Paul Eastwick '01 says of writing his new…...
Cornell researchers win prize for insight into conspiracy belief
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (252+ words) By | Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications An article about AI combatting conspiracy theories, co-authored by Cornell psychology researchers Gordon Pennycook and David Rand with a collaborator, has won the 2026 Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of…...
11 new researchers become Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (358+ words) 11 new researchers become Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows'Cornell University 11 new researchers become Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows By | Patricia Waldron , Cornell Bowers CIS Cornell researchers interested in diverse topics ranging from peptide…...
AI chip exports bill an “attempt to reclaim congressional agency”
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (27+ words) AI chip exports bill an "attempt to reclaim congressional agency'Cornell University AI chip exports bill an "attempt to reclaim congressional agency By | Staff , A&S Communications...
Discovery challenges assumptions about the structure of language
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (289+ words) By | Kate Blackwood , Cornell Chronicle Every time we speak, we're improvising." "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting words together into never-before-spoken or -written sentences," said"Morten H. Christiansen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology…...