Pros and cons of affirmative action at an elite Brazilian university

New research by Assistant Professor Evan Riehl shows that affirmative action can have benefits for students from disadvantaged backgrounds but also unintended spillover effects that negatively impact a university's other students. 

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Tattoo artist bridges design with 3-D technology

Joe George was the artist-in-residence this summer in the Hybrid Body Lab, where Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao combines digital technology, fashion design and body art to invent beautiful, functional computer interfaces that people can wear on their skin.

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Panel to explore reported rights violations of Uyghur children

Reported violations of children’s rights will be explored in a symposium entitled “Uyghur Children in China’s Genocide” on Fri., Oct. 27, from 1-5 p.m. in Goldwin Smith Hall, Rm. 76. The symposium will be hybrid; register in advance for the livestream.

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Physicists realize fractionalization without a magnetic field

The Kim Group leveraged geometric thinking in a twisted bilayer graphene lattice to predict new effects, a novel approach.

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Research: Electrons in a strange metal world

Why do electrons in high-temperature superconductors behave the way they do? A quantum explanation could have planetary payoffs.

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Staller Lecture to explore the economics of AI Oct. 12

Economist Jens Ludwig will explore how “big data” and AI tools help us understand and improve human decision-making.

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Intercampus symposium brings together Cornell researchers studying metabolic health

On Sept. 11 and 12, nearly 100 researchers from the Ithaca Campus and the Weill Cornell Medicine Campus in New York City came together for the symposium, Metabolic Health: From Molecules to Populations.

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Visiting scholar to discuss health equity

The inaugural Flemmie Kittrell Visiting Scholar in the College of Human Ecology, Dr. Ruth C. Browne — president and CEO of Ronald McDonald House New York — will come to campus Oct. 4-6.

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Cornell astronomy to offer Brinson Prize

The Brinson Prize supports postdoctoral scholars in carrying out novel research in observational cosmology.

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