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Professor Lisa Brophy named Academy Fellow
Professor Brophy is among 21 new Fellows to be inducted into the Academy - one of just five from Victoria - and joins some of Australia’s leading researchers and practitioners across the breadth of social science disciplines.
Her…
Population DNA screening for multiple diseases would save lives and be cost effective: study
Offering population-wide genetic screening for risk of deadly but preventable diseases to young adults would save lives and be cost-effective in Australia, a Monash University-led study has found.
The study used health economic…
Monash engineers make discovery that gives babies with hearing impairment new hope
Monash University Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering and Bionics Institute research teams have used cutting edge light technology invisible to the human eye to non-invasively image brains to help diagnose hearing impairments in…
Cornell University’s Food Hackathon Awards Grand Prize to Honey-Based Beverage
Members of the “Bad Bees in Business” team were up late into the night Oct. 20, making trips to Wegmans and then mixing tea, lavender, honey and other ingredients to create their entry into the 2023 Food Hackathon, held at Stocking Hall.…
Study Shows Digitizing Books Can Stimulate Demand for Physical Copies
Book publishers cried foul – in the form of numerous legal challenges – nearly two decades ago when the Google Books project digitized and freely distributed more than 25 million works.
The publishers argued that free digital…
Cornell University Recognizes Exceptional Faculty with Weiss Teaching Awards
President Martha E. Pollack announced the selection of the 2023 Stephen H. Weiss Teaching Awards recipients on Oct. 31.
“Undergraduate teaching is key to our academic mission, and the Weiss Awards enable us to recognize our most…
Cornell University Receives $10M for Precision Nutrition in Honor of Joan Klein Jacobs ’54
The College of Human Ecology (CHE) has received a $10 million commitment from Joan Klein Jacobs ’54 and Irwin M. Jacobs ’54, BEE ’56, to support the college’s new Center for Precision Nutrition and Health. The gift will endow the center’s…
AI-Focused Processor Accelerates Genome Assembly in Groundbreaking Study
A hardware accelerator initially developed for artificial intelligence operations successfully speeds up the alignment of protein and DNA molecules, making the process up to 10 times faster than state-of-the-art methods.
This approach…
Study Finds Stricter Abortion Laws Linked to Increase in Unintended Births
Prior to the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, women in states that severely limit or outlaw access to abortion were 13% more likely to have a live birth resulting from an unintended pregnancy than those in states where abortion care was…
Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine Launches Informative Podcast
The Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine debuted its inaugural podcast show on Nov 1. Hosted by Michelle Moyal, D.V.M. ’07, assistant clinical professor of primary care surgery, the Cornell Veterinary Podcast takes the breadth…