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The Forte/Piano Summer Academy will return to Cornell July 30-Aug. 3 after two years away. Hosted by the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards (CCHK) in conjunction with the Chamber Music Collective (CMC), the collaboration will…

Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), is among the winners of the 2024 Global Energy Prize, which recognizes outstanding achievements…

From the classroom to the boardroom, the lab to the office, leadership skills are important for graduate students who want to succeed professionally. Thirty-three graduate students improved their leadership knowledge during the 2024 Colman…

In September 2020, Alistair Hayden’s house filled with smoke from the Bobcat Fire, one of the largest wildfires on record in Los Angeles County, which scorched nearly 116,000 acres. “We were all watching – students and others –…

Cornell researchers have provided a simple and comprehensive – if less dramatic – explanation for bright radar reflections initially interpreted as liquid water beneath the ice cap on Mars’ south pole. Their simulations show that small…

A new study identifies microbes that potentially play important roles in breaking down harmful per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) chemicals – also known as “forever chemicals” – and points to functional genes that may be…

A company that originated in Syracuse and is aiming to use agricultural waste to replace the petroleum-based plastic liners in coffee cups, takeout containers and other consumer products has joined Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures…

An artificial intelligence-powered virtual teammate with a female voice boosts participation and productivity among women on teams dominated by men, according to new Cornell research. The findings suggest that the gender of an AI’s voice…

Speak a little too haltingly and with long pauses, and a speech-to-text transcriber might put harmful, violent words in your mouth, Cornell researchers have discovered. OpenAI’s Whisper – an artificial intelligence-powered speech…

Imagine if wine and beer had a baby. Got it? Now imagine if milk were that baby’s auntie. That odd baby would be not unlike a new Cornell piquette project, a spin on a low-alcohol beverage that was once the lunchtime quaff of…