Student researchers focus on cancer, obesity prevention

Students were awarded funding from the College’s Summer Experience Grant Program to help pay for living expenses.

Applications open for Klarman fellowships

The three-year fellowships are available to early-career scholars conducting leading-edge research in any of the College’s discipline areas.

Louise Xie '21 awarded Trenchard Prize

Louise Xie '21, awarded Trenchard Prize for Undergraduate Research for her honors thesis titled: Analysis of COVID-19 information dissemination and credibility on WeChat. Congratulations Louise!

McNair Scholars lobby DC virtually for more higher ed funding

This summer was going to be crucial for Areion Allmond ’21.

With a major in biology and society, she had planned to live on campus in student housing to continue her research on the effect of the nutrient choline on children’s cognitive development. This kind of research can make or break a student’s chances of getting accepted into a M.D./Ph.D. program – which is Allmond’s goal.

Juno Salazar Parreñas

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Juno Salazar Parreñas, Assistant Professor, Science & Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

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New book explores maps as tools of political power

Maps are more than two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional terrain. They are also powerful political tools to control territory, as Cornell sociologist and science studies scholar Christine Leuenberger explains in her new book, “The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine,” co-written with Izhak Schnell of Tel Aviv University.

Students provide tutoring for Weill Cornell Medicine employee kids

Seventy Cornell students and recent graduates are volunteering this summer to tutor the children of Weill Cornell Medicine employees in subjects ranging from writing to physics.

Rebecca Slayton commentary published in War on the Rocks

Rebecca Slayton published a commentary in War on the Rocks titled: The promise and risk of artificial intelligence: A brief historyRead the full article

Bruce Lewenstein comments in Financial Times article

Bruce Lewenstein commented in the Financial Times article titled: Protests in a pandemic present dilemma for scientists. "Scientists see themselves as “rational and disconnected” so they are not well prepared for the whims of capricious politicians", said Bruce. "Politicians choose when to embrace public health and when to push it away, in the...

16 faculty, staff members receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards

Sixteen faculty and professional staff members in three state contract colleges at Cornell have been selected for the 2019-20 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.