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Chemistry & Chemical Biology

McGovern Center incubator graduates a trio of startups

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell’s Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences business incubator graduated three companies at a ceremony in Weill Hall Nov. 13. Embark, Lionano and Sterifre Medical join the McGovern Center’s previous two graduates, Agronomic Technology Corp. and ArcScan.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

The Human Today

The newest episode of the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast features Trevor Pinch, Goldwin Smith Professor of Science & Technology Studies.

Cornell Cinema

Panel reflects on Watergate and ‘Russiagate’

Cornell Chronicle

Reporters pecked on typewriters, smoked in elevators and used rotary-dial telephones. But despite the anachronisms, the 1976 film “All the President’s Men” offered uncanny resonances with current U.S. politics, according to a panel following a Nov. 8 screening at Cornell Cinema.

Baker hall at sunset
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Awards partner life science researchers with industries

Cornell Chronicle

Reducing antibiotic resistance in animals and developing a lubricating formula in joints for people suffering from arthritis are two of seven projects that received Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) annual grants.

Africana Studies

Myth of race still embedded in scientific research, scholar says

Cornell Chronicle

The concept of “race” – the idea that humans are naturally divided into biologically distinct groups – has been definitively proven false. But the 21st century has seen a disturbing increase in scientists inaccurately presenting race as the reason for racial inequality, says an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and law.

Neurobiology and Behavior

Five faculty members elected as 2017 AAAS fellows

Thomas Seeley's work focuses on the complex signaling systems used by honeybees to integrate colony life.

Physics

Graduate students spark public interest in electricity

Cornell Chronicle

Josue San Emeterio and other physics graduate students enjoy bringing the magic of science to local audiences.

Physics

Keck-funded group proposes new topological superconductor

Cornell Chronicle

The Keck Foundation announced in early July that it had awarded $1 million to a Cornell cross-campus collaboration of professors in engineering and physics aimed at turning theory into reality – namely, creating a specific topological superconducting material that could help pave the way to quantum computing.

Africana Studies

Cornellians gather at D.C.’s African-American history museum

Cornell Chronicle

President Martha E. Pollack and more than a thousand others gathered to celebrate the museum and Cornell’s founding principles of inclusion and diversity.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Human dignity and the incarcerated

In the newest episode of the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast, Professor Mary Fainsod Katzenstein talks about the impacts of Cornell's Prison Education Program.