Student technologists show collective ‘force’ at women in computing conference

Catherine Tom ’24 recounts her experiences at the Grace Hopper Conference, an annual celebration of women in computing named for the pioneering mathematician and computer scientist.

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Asian American Studies celebrates 35th anniversary

Cornell's Asian American studies program, founded in 1987, was the first of its kind within the Ivy League.

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'Words as battle axes': A&S professors appear in Frederick Douglass film

Derrick R. Spires, Edward Baptist, and Gerard Aching add their voices to a chorus of experts telling the story of how a man born into slavery around 1818 became an advocate for freedom for African Americans. 

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The pros and cons of pay transparency

Peter Bamberger, Ph.D. ’90, research director of ILR’s Smithers Institute and a Tel Aviv University professor who has written a book on exposing pay, is among the experts who will speak at a Tuesday event.

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Juliana Hu Pegues wins ASA book prize for ‘Space-Time Colonialism’

The prize recognizes the best first book in American Studies released during 2021.

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New Project Will Reveal True Cost of India’s Food Subsidies

A new project from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) aims to estimate the true cost of the PDS by accounting for hidden costs like the health and environmental impacts of the program.

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Summer startup internships send Kessler Fellows around the world

For 10 weeks over the summer, the 13 students in the 2022 cohort of the Kessler Fellows program spread across the globe to gain firsthand experience working for startups.

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Samaranayake named to Popular Science’s Brilliant 10

Popular Science’s 2022 list of “the top up-and-coming minds in science” includes Samitha Samaranayake, assistant professor in of civil and environmental engineering, citing his work to design algorithms to help varied modes of mass transit work more seamlessly together.

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Ithaca, New York City collaboration launches scientific computing training series 

On November 1st, Cornell's Center for Advanced Computing and Weill Cornell Medicine Scientific Computing, ITS, and Clinical and Translational Science Center will launch a new Scientific Computing Training Series.  

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