UNCOVERED: 9 | History Defined

SI:AM | Looking Back at College Football’s First Replay Controversy

The Western Michigan-Michigan ruckus recalls a notorious 1940 game between Cornell and Dartmouth—let us explain.

Sports Illustrated · Sep 9

This Mysore-born scientist, whose great-grandfather was a mathematician and grandfather a Sanskrit scholar, helped make AI faster at weather forecasting & drug discovery

Anima Anandkumar, a prominent AI researcher, applies machine learning to complex problems in physics and science. Her work at Caltech focuses on areas including tensor methods and deep learning for scientific applications. She has previously worked at Amazon Web Services, where she contributed to Amazon SageMaker, and conducted research at…

The Economic Times · Aug 25

Live H5N1 Was Isolated from Fetal Bovine Serum in a Finding That Puts Laboratory Biosafety Under New Scrutiny

Cornell researchers isolated live H5N1 from a lot of fetal bovine serum used in labs. Heating at 56 degrees Celsius inactivated the virus.

Medical Daily · Aug 24

Cornell's new rule: Don't butcher bears

The university updated its housing policies after students skinned and processed a black bear in a shared kitchen

Salon · Aug 8

Resident-on-Resident Abuse Is Now the Most Cited Form of Nursing Home Abuse in Federal Records

Federal inspectors cited nursing homes more for resident-on-resident abuse than any other type in early 2026, a KFF Health News analysis found.

Medical Daily · Jul 29

Cornell student who said he’s ‘not interested in working for a Jew’ claims he faced no disciplinary action

‘I didn’t say anything that could be classified as hateful,’ the student claimed, according to a conservative watchdog group

The Independent UK · Jul 27

Cornell student Austin Franco says university took no action after he rejected Jewish boss, claims controversy left him with $25,000 in donations

Cornell student Austin Franco is facing backlash for refusing a job offer based on religion and claimed the university has not disciplined him for his controversial remarks. Franco also states the controversy brought hi $25,000 in donations. Franco believes he was misled into the undercover meeting by a supposed support…

The Economic Times · Jul 26

He rejected to work for a Jew boss. Now he has $25,000 in donation money and Cornell did not take any action against him

Austin Franco, the controversial Cornell University student, who flatly refused to work with an NYC startup because the boss was Jewish, revealed that Cornell did not take any action against him and now he has $25,000 in his bank account through donations. Basically, the controversy did more good to him.…

The Times of India · Jul 25

Lab Study Shows Silica Nanoparticles Wiped Out Aggressive Prostate Tumors in Mice When Combined with Immunotherapy

Silica nanoparticles destroyed aggressive prostate tumors in mice when combined with immunotherapy, a new Cornell study found. Here is what the early results mean.

Medical Daily · Jul 10

Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project

Cornell Lab for Ornithology plans data linkup between app and population monitoring on eBird platform

The Guardian - UK · Jul 4