This Cornell Research story explores the many avenues that graduate students pursue in their research projects and the multitide of Cornell supports available to them.
More than 5,000 graduate students work at Cornell, studying in more than 80 fields.
“If you’re a grad student with initiative, there are a lot ways for you to create your own institution of people who have similar interests,” says Christine “Xine” Yao, a graduate student in English.
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In "Child of Light," an experimental historical fiction set in 1890s Utica, Jesi Bender-Buell '07 tells the story of a young girl as she tries to understand her world through the interests of her parents: Spiritualism for Mama, electrical engineering for Papa.
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Enslavers posted as many as a quarter-million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves. Ed Baptist is leading the public crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move, that has digitized tens of thousands of these advertisements in an open-source site accessible to the public.
