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Career Development

A&S Career Development staff offer students ‘Road Trips to the Real World’

A&S Communications

Through Cornell’s participation in a regional career development organization, students have the opportunity to travel to company headquarters and gain first-hand experience in career fields, network with top professionals, and explore job opportunities through Cornell’s involvement with the Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers.

International research

Six on faculty receive Einaudi Center grants for international work

Cornell Chronicle

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded seed grants to three faculty members to support new collaborative research efforts on international topics, and small grants to three more to help fund conferences, workshops or other activities. 

Interdisciplinary

Documentarian: Take down paywalls with open access to scholarship

Cornell Chronicle

Two minutes into Jason Schmitt’s documentary “Paywall: The Business of Scholarship,” a pop-up window flashed across the screen, demanding payment. At the free Nov. 29 screening at Cornell Cinema, the gag coaxed uneasy laughs from students, professors and scholars all too familiar with running into paywalls during their research. The screening was followed by a discussion.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Podcast examines the science of love

A&S Communications

“Science of Love”, a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast series, explores the biological basis of attraction.

Why Cornell? Ambassador Renee Answers...

… This week, Renee explains why she chose Cornell, after a visit to campus in high school. By Renee Girard … on the ethical implications of this modern technology in combat, I had come across a Cornell Government Professor and …

Alumni support

Alumni gift funds new music professorship, supports wind symphony

A&S Communications

Dick Silver ’50 MD ‘53, says the professors who took the most interest in him were his music professors.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Vikram Gadagkar receives award from Society for Neuroscience

A&S Communications

… Gruber International Research Award from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), along with Harvard postdoctoral fellow … two postdoctoral fellows who have contributed outstanding neuroscience research in an international setting. It will …

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international studies

Two students share tea essay contest prize

Siddarth Sankaran '21 (computer science and economics) and PhD candidate Annie Sheng (anthropology) have each been awarded $250 as co-winners of a student essay contest linked to the October 26-27 conference "Tea High and Low: Elixir, Exploitation, Ecology."

Chemisty and Chemical Biology

Ecolectro receives $1.7M from DOE to accelerate hydrogen fuel development

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell startup is working toward a day when harmful carbon dioxide in automobile exhaust vanishes into thin air – for good.The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted $1.7 million to Ecolectro to accelerate production of hydrogen – a green fuel of the future. Ecolectro is based at the McGovern Family Center for Venture Development, a Cornell business incubator.

Interdisciplinary research

Forum highlights the connections between humans and apes

Cornell Chronicle

In the early 1980s, Peter Gabriel sang “Shock the Monkey.” But about 15 years ago, the English musician became more interested in jamming with apes instead.Bonobos, specifically.“I had always been fascinated to see how we might interact musically,” said Gabriel. “I was blown away at the obvious intelligence of the beings that I was sharing the space with.”

Molecular Biology and Genetics & Astronomy

Provost Research Innovation Award winners announced

Cornell Chronicle

Innovative research with great impact is one of Cornell’s hallmarks, and to recognize some of the best examples of that work, the Office of the Provost has established an annual award that highlights the depth and breadth of the university’s research efforts.The inaugural Provost Research Innovation Awards recognize midcareer faculty from engineering, the humanities, life sciences, social sciences and physical sciences.

Research

The government's role in the rise of lab grown meat

Wired.com

Adrienne Rose Bitar, a post doctoral associate in the Department of History, specializes in the history and culture of American food and health. Bitar recently published "Diet and the Disease of Civilization," a study of diet books that examines trends in popular diets.

Linguistics

Linguistics grad student partners with Mayan speaker for preservation research

A&S Communications

Cornell PhD candidate Carol-Rose Little has had a long-standing fascination with languages of other cultures. “I've had an interest in languages since I knew other languages existed in the world,” Little said. “During my undergraduate time (at McGill University), I started working with a community out in Eastern Canada and that's what really opened my eyes to how my love of language can be beneficial to communities that are trying to preserve their language.”

Alumna filmmaker

Alumna lands feature film deals

Performing & Media Arts

The first feature film of Department of Performing and Media Arts alumna Amanda Idoko ’10, "Breaking News in Yuba County," will be produced in mid-2019, starring Allison Janney and Laura Dern.

First-generation student support

Alumni provide challenge funding for Posse program

A&S Communications

"Their excitement, their enthusiasm, their freshness — it’s contagious."