… are you most proud of while at Cornell? I first and foremost proud to have been part of the Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship; I urge first-generation or minority students with an interest in … and one dictionary project through Engaged Cornell. My first thesis is for the College Scholar's major and touches …
… cross on public land in Bladensburg, MD violates the First Amendment's prohibition on the establishment of … appellant's argument that the monument does not violate the First Amendment because the 'peace cross' is not a religious …
… created by Charles F. Feeney ’56, made its very first grant in 1982 to Cornell University. By the end of … of political influence and the extent to which the best-off should be taxed to help others, says Miller, the … initiated to celebrate the opening of Klarman Hall, the first building dedicated to the humanities on Cornell's …
… played a vital role to validate the historic news of the first direct detection of gravitational waves, predicted a … of the LIGO team, “This discovery has huge significance: firstly, as evidence for general relativity and its …
… Studies El Centro, CA Why did you choose Cornell? I first stumbled onto Ho Plaza almost by accident, after a … heard maybe two sentences of Mandarin Chinese up until my first year at Cornell. Sure, I had dear friends back home … to say, I was more nervous than not when I walked into my first Beginning Mandarin I section. After about a week, and …
… At the jam-packed first installment of Cornell University Library’s Chats in … At the jam-packed first installment of Cornell University Library’s Chats in … take on development policy in a developing country.” Basu first spoke about his professional background prior to …
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White dwarf Sirius B. This burned-out stellar remnant is a faint companion to the brilliant blue-white Dog Star, Sirius, located in the winter constellation Canis Major.
… Kaltenegger was part of a research team that reported the first planet ever discovered around a white dwarf, and says … around dead stars after our paper last year reported on the first one ever found," said Kaltenegger, associate professor …
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Church doorway in Paros, Greece
… on whether to legalize same-sex marriage. It would be the first Orthodox Christian country to take that step. Landon … countries to move in a similar way. It’s harder to be the first, but once someone else has done it, other countries …
… for realizing a superfluid. To test his hypothesis, Nguyen first needs to produce excitons, a kind of quasiparticle. The recipe for an exciton sounds simple. The first ingredient is an electron—a negatively charged … diselenide (MoSe 2 ) and tungsten diselenide (WSe 2 ). The first compound supplies the electrons, the second supplies …
… its growth and acceptance broadly. The article is the first on physics education research to be published in … looked at how they perceive those messages. This is the first study to examine the relationship between receiving … and perceiving those messages of positive recognition, said first author Meagan Sundstrom, Ph.D. ’24, a postdoctoral …
… D.C., June 28 to advocate for federal programs assisting first-generation and low-income college students. … D.C., June 28 to advocate for federal programs assisting first-generation and low-income college students. The McNair … of eight programs that provide support to low-income, first-generation or otherwise disadvantaged high school and …
Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak, Ph.D. ’77, delivers the 2025 Ef Racker Lecture.
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… most puzzling mysteries – the origins of life – during the 2025 Ef Racker Lecture. … the origins of life – with a crowded room Oct. 9 during the 2025 Ef Racker Lecture. The lecture is sponsored by the …
In 2016, Yimon Aye, Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow and assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, introduced the world to “T-REX” – a chemical method for targeting and modulating single proteins to analyze and screen for specific oxidation-reduction (redox) events, which are vital to many basic functions of life.
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Meagan Sundstrom presents her winning Three Minute Thesis.
… family, advisors, and lab mates watched online. In the first in-person Cornell 3MT since 2019, presentations were … and Removing Barriers for Women in Physics,” earned her first place and $1,500. Second place and $1,000 was awarded … of her work and its impacts. The 3MT competition was first held in 2008 at the University of Queensland and has …
