Stevens electrical and computer engineering students develop an engaging app to help parents and children bond over their family’s language and culture According to the U.S. Census Bureau, roughly 50% of U.S. children under the age of 18 are members of ethnic minority groups. Yet many immigrants struggle to assimilate into American culture while still […]
An experiment in which two people play a modified version of Tetris – the 40-year-old block-stacking video game – revealed that players who get fewer turns perceive the other player as less likable, regardless of whether a person or an algorithm allocates the turns. “We expected that people working in a team would care if […]
Reality, at least as we know it, only goes so deep. Look closely enough at any object, down to the level of molecules and atoms, and the world starts to play by its own rules. This is the realm of quantum physics: where waves of energy and particles are the same, and strange phenomena like […]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is awarding a $4.96 million grant to Penn State’s PlantVillage to help increase food production for smallholder farmers who face pests and disease of their crops across sub-Saharan Africa. The research project, called Delphi, will create a modeling platform that can be used by researchers globally to improve the […]
For her work in developing and teaching nutrition and food justice curricula to adolescents in New York City, Hannah Rudt ’23 has won the 2023 National Student Employee of the Year award – the first Cornellian to ever receive this honor. Rudt has worked for four years in the research lab of Tashara Leak, assistant […]
Cornell’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement (CREA) has been named a key partner in establishing a Regional Food Business Center that will serve the agricultural industry across the Northeast. The United States Department of Agriculture awarded the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) Foundation $30 million to help farmers and food businesses access […]
As biotechnology and pharmaceutical professionals continue efforts to make advances in medicinal drug formulation, safety and efficacy, experts in the field are implementing innovations to address regulatory hurdles, research costs and global health challenges. The new Biotech and Pharmaceutical Management Program offered through the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy is designed to […]
Neurons in a key area of the brain have different functions based on their exact genetic identity, and understanding this diversity could lead to better understanding of the brain’s computational flexibility and memory capacity, potentially informing disease treatment options, Cornell researchers report in a new study. Pyramidal cells in the CA1 region of the hippocampus, […]
