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Cornell University Research: Beneficial Insects Vital for Agriculture and Environmental Preservation
There are an estimated 10 quintillion insects (that’s 10 plus 17 zeroes) on planet earth and, with the exception of our beloved pollinators, they get mostly bad press: Mosquitoes that spread malaria, ticks that cause Lyme disease, and…
Cornell University’s Einaudi Seed Grants Foster Global Collaborations
A new round of seed grants from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies will help internationally engaged faculty from six Cornell colleges and schools jump-start projects on topics ranging from drone-assisted healthcare delivery…
Cornell University: Ultrasound Experiment Unveils New Superconductor
With pulses of sound through tiny speakers, Cornell physics researchers have clarified the basic nature of a new superconductor.
Since it was found to be a superconductor about five years ago, uranium ditelluride has created a lot of…
Cornell Jazz Musicians Honored with Awards from DownBeat Magazine
For the first time in university history, Cornell students have won Student Music Awards from DownBeat Magazine, one of the world’s premiere jazz publications.
A collection of nine students from the After Six ensemble won the award for…
Cornell University: GoT-ChA Unveiled; Novel Tool Illuminates Impact of Gene Mutations on Cells
A team co-led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center has developed an advanced method for revealing how gene mutations disrupt the normal packaging of DNA. These structural changes, which alter patterns of…
Cornell University History Alumnus Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Dementia Narrative
Katie Engelhart ’09 has won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for her article, “The Mother Who Changed: A Story of Dementia,” published in the New York Times Magazine. Her citation for the $15,000 award says it was bestowed “for her…
Stevens Institute of Technology: School of Systems and Enterprises Reveals 2024 Student Award…
With the 2023-24 academic year at Stevens coming to a close, the School of Systems and Enterprises is proud to recognize the recipients of its annual undergraduate, graduate and doctoral student award winners.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Developing Tailored Programming Languages for Optimal Visual…
A single photograph offers glimpses into the creator’s world — their interests and feelings about a subject or space. But what about creators behind the technologies that help to make those images possible?
MIT Department of…
MIT Astronomers Spot Elusive Stellar Light Enveloping Ancient Quasars
MIT astronomers have observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The distant signals, which trace back more than 13 billion years to the universe’s infancy, are revealing clues to how the…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: President Sally Kornbluth and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Delve…
How is the field of artificial intelligence evolving and what does it mean for the future of work, education, and humanity? MIT President Sally Kornbluth and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman covered all that and more in a wide-ranging…