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A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine researchers helps explain why having ApoE4 – the gene variant most closely linked to Alzheimer’s disease – increases the risk of neurodegeneration an...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/immune-cells-key-blood-vessel-damage-neurodegeneration

Taking race into account when developing tools to predict a patient’s risk of colorectal cancer leads to more accurate predictions when compared with race-blind algorithms, researchers find.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/considering-race-colon-cancer-prediction-reduces-disparities

By examining Jupiter’s moon Io – the most volcanically active place in the solar system – Cornell astronomers can study a vital process in planetary formation and evolution: tidal heating.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/volcanoes-may-help-reveal-interior-heat-jupiter-moon

With funding from the National Science Foundation, Cornell and a group of institutional partners have created the Upstate New York Energy Storage Engine to advance energy storage technology and...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/cornell-partners-make-upstate-ny-regional-engine-better-batteries

The campuswide career fair for students returns in-person this fall for the first time since 2019, after shifting to a virtual environment due the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/student-career-fair-returns-barton-hall

Indigenous student brings fair-trade coffee to Ithaca while empowering her Mam parents and neighbors to command a better price for their beans.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/hospitality-student-markets-coffee-her-rural-guatemalan-village

The College of Veterinary Medicine and partners have launched a free online course, “Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in Rural America,” to give learners support strategies and resources ...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/online-course-helps-veterinarians-support-rural-mental-health

A smart sensor that attaches to the tip of a syringe can measure, in real time, the concentration and viability of the cells that pass through it – a potential breakthrough for biomedical 3D ...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/lab-patent-undergrad-creates-smart-syringe-bioprinting

Atkinson has announced funding for nine new projects that will bring together Cornell Atkinson researchers with Environmental Defense Fund practitioners. 

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/atkinson-edf-partnerships-bridge-gap-between-academia-and-impact

Marielena Hincapié, a national leader on immigration reform and immigrant justice, and Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, former Commanding General of U.S. Army Europe, have been named the 2024-25 John W. Nix...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/hincapie-and-hodges-named-2024-25-nixon-fellows

In June 2024, longtime Active Learning Initiative director Peter Lepage handed the initiative's reins to incoming director, Timothy Riley, professor of mathematics. 

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/active-learning-initiative-welcomes-new-director-says-goodbye-longtime-leader

Art historian Kelly Presutti examines the role that depictions of landscape – in paintings, photographs, prints, porcelain and maps – played in the formation of modern France in a new book.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/how-art-helped-shape-modern-france

Daveed Diggs, who won Tony and Grammy awards for his portrayal of the dual roles of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in “Hamilton,” will visit campus Sept. 25 for a talk as the 2024 ...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/tony-award-winner-daveed-diggs-visit-campus-talk

With a focus on voter registration, the nonpartisan student group has engaged more than 1,500 students already, and aims to reach 90% student participation in the U.S. elections on Nov. 5.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/cornell-votes-fields-surge-student-interest-voting

Catering to an aging population, Cornell food scientists have created a nutritious snack made from milk for those who have trouble swallowing. These puffs dissolve in your mouth instantly. 

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/healthful-milk-protein-puffs-are-easy-snack-swallow

“Cultural prompting” – asking an AI model to perform a task like someone from another part of the world – resulted in reduced bias in responses for the vast majority of the more than 100 ...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/reducing-cultural-bias-ai-one-sentence

New and returning Cornellians gathered on Sept. 14 for Welcome Students Weekend, an event bringing students from Cornell, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) together to ...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/students-embrace-ithaca-during-welcome-students-weekend

About half of patients with metastatic melanoma treated with a combination of immune checkpoint inhibitors survive cancer-free for 10 years or more, according to a  report from Weill Cornell Med...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/long-term-metastatic-melanoma-survival-dramatically-improves-immunotherapy

For the first time, New York state farmers can see prices and sales for meat and produce at farmers markets around the state, thanks to weekly price reports from a Dyson team.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/price-right-market-reports-help-nys-farmers-set-optimal-prices

Researchers have used a cutting-edge model system to uncover the mechanism by which SARS-CoV-2 induces new cases of diabetes and worsens complications in people who already have it.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/study-reveals-how-covid-19-infection-can-cause-or-worsen-diabetes

Cornell’s first Community Field Day – with sports, games, snacks and crafts – will celebrate togetherness, physical play and well-being on Sunday, Sept. 22, from 10 a.m. to noon at Schoell...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/field-day-invites-community-come-together-play

Neal Zaslaw, the Herbert Gussman Professor of Music Emeritus, spent three decades assembling a comprehensive catalog of Mozart’s 600-plus compositions.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/mr-mozart-finishes-comprehensive-catalog-maestros-work

The history of labor organizations and worker issues in China is the focus of “Keywords of Chinese Labor: An Exhibition,” opening this month in an art gallery in Brooklyn. The exhibition wil...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/story-chinese-laborers-told-through-kheel-center-items

A massive multi-institution genomic survey of the Siberian husky has revealed that sled dogs descended from two distinct lineages of Arctic canids and originated in the northeastern Siberian Arct...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/genomics-reveals-sled-dogs-siberian-lineage

Cornell’s “Antisemitism and Islamophobia Examined” series concludes this semester with a talk by Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/final-speaker-series-examining-antisemitism-islamophobia

The Deanne Gebell Gitner ’66 and Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants puts graduate TAs in the spotlight, celebrating and recognizing them for their impact and contributions to education...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/donors-annual-prize-shows-appreciation-teaching-assistants

Scholars and policymakers need to look at more than "gender equality" to assess women’s status and how it contributes to political violence or peace, political scientist Sabrina Karim argues in...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/improving-womens-status-promotes-peace-how

Universities must do more to prepare students to participate in democracy, Johns Hopkins University President Ronald Daniels said at a Sept. 13 event launching the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/how-universities-can-help-strengthen-democracy

An internationally recognized leader in social networks and algorithmic fairness, the Bowers CIS professor won the award for his foundational contributions in computer science and social science.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/jon-kleinberg-receives-world-laureates-association-prize

Climate Week NYC will get a Big Red tint as Cornell researchers suggest carbon solutions for the travel industry, discuss agricultural methane and participate in a nuclear energy conference.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/cornell-experts-offer-solutions-climate-week-nyc

Three recently retired ILR School professors who helped shape the international labor economics field reflected on their academic journeys in question-and-answer stories. 

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/three-influential-labor-economists-share-career-highlights

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar have created an intricate molecular map of the human body and its complex physiological processes based on the analysis of thousands of molecules in ...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/molecular-map-contributes-understanding-disease-mechanisms

A new library exhibit will highlight the close-knit, vibrant communities that Black writers in the U.S. created through newspapers, books, pamphlets and other publications in the 18th to 20th cen...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/black-print-history-community-featured-exhibit

The Fall 2024 Scientific Computing Training Series begins October 2, featuring five webinars on Python, JupyterLab, and R, aimed at enhancing research services and scientific collaboration across...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/cornells-scientific-computing-training-series-kicks-oct-2

The work of the four winning writers – Andrew Boryga, Aisha Abdel Gawad, C. Michelle Lindley and Amanda Moore – spans a wide range of forms and topics.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/freund-prize-winners-read-sept-26

Arguing with a conspiracy theorist that the moon landing wasn’t staged is usually a futile effort, but ChatGPT might have better luck, according to new research by Cornell, American University ...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/ai-succeeds-combatting-conspiracy-theories

The statewide program, offered in 38 counties through Cornell Cooperative Extension, teaches the responsible use of firearms, while also supporting youth development. 

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/nys-kids-find-community-confidence-4-h-shooting-sports

Neil Cholli, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in economics, has received a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to study how inequality affects economic growth and well-being in the U...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/klarman-fellow-study-consequences-social-safety-net

Britney Schmidt, associate professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences and of earth and atmospheric sciences in Cornell Engineering, has been named a laureate of the Blavatnik Na...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/scientist-britney-schmidt-wins-blavatnik-award

The experiment gave researchers data on the rates at which stranded dolphins are found and reported, and identified areas where fewer decoys were detected, which may merit extra scrutiny by train...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/decoy-carcasses-reveal-how-often-stranded-dolphins-are-found

Cornell Law School’s incoming Class of 2027 showcases a wide range of backgrounds and experiences while boasting impressive academic credentials. The latest cohort of 216 students was selected ...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/class-2027-brings-varied-life-and-career-backgrounds-cornell-law

Cornell, the only institution offering regular multilevel instruction in all six of the major Southeast Asian languages – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Filipino (Tagalog), Thai and Vietnamese –...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/language-sustainability-through-collaboration-conference-cornell

Researchers created a robot less than 1 millimeter in size that is printed as a 2D hexagonal “metasheet” but, with a jolt of electricity, morphs into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawls.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/microscale-kirigami-robot-folds-3d-shapes-and-crawls

The Communal eXtended-Reality (CXR) system is a cutting-edge blend of the physical and digital worlds in which virtual scenes are overlaid onto the real world, designed to engage communities in ...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/mixing-physical-virtual-worlds-drive-home-climate-urgency

A two-day training program for the New York State Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services helps local health officials and first responders convey key messages in a crisis.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/crisis-communication-course-provides-new-tools-state-health-officials

Bald eagles are the most vulnerable to lead poisoning from hunters' ammunition of more than 30 species known to scavenge deer carcasses in New York state, Cornell research finds.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/bald-eagles-face-highest-lead-risk-nys-deer-scavengers

Cornell innovation allows growers to use corn seed planting machines to plant strips of milkweed or wildflowers next to their fields. 

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/corn-shaped-seed-pellets-boost-habitat-monarchs-bees

An antidote to pesticide poisoning in bees shows promising early results in tests done with common eastern bumblebees. 

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/bee-antidote-deadly-pesticides-shows-promise

The Cornell Family Business Leadership certificate program guides families through unique ownership and operational challenges.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/family-business-owners-strategize-longevity-new-certificate-program

Mara Yue Du, associate professor of history; Durba Ghosh, professor of history; and Rachel Weil, professor of history are pursuing research projects at the IAS campus in Princeton, New Jersey.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/cornell-history-scholars-residence-institute-advanced-study