Research from a team of Cornell and Ithaca College faculty and students provided key insights to Tompkins County legislators, who recently approved funding for a new housing program to help formerly incarcerated people.
The Laidlaw scholars at Cornell are diving into a world of research. Over the first summer of the program, 24 Cornellians selected for the prestigious international program completed research projects on topics ranging from migration and big data to entomology, engineering communications and animal science.
The inaugural 200,000 Euro awarded was awarded to Ginsparg for his work in developing the first platform to make scientific preprints immediately available globally.
New Cornell research uses mathematical modeling to show that friendship networks can distort a voter’s sense of an election’s outcome, resulting in the victory of politicians who do not represent the preferences of the electorate as a whole.
Garrett Emmons '23 and Hannah Master '23 have each been awarded a Harry Caplan Travel Fellowship worth $5,000 to study and conduct research in Italy and Israel, respectively.
Composer Roberto Sierra won the 2021 Latin Grammy Award for the Best Classical Contemporary Composition with “Music From Cuba And Spain, Sierra: Sonata Para Guitarra.”
Jazz great Wynton Marsalis visited campus as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large, teaching students, giving public talks and playing with Cornell musicians in Bailey Hall.
During the COP26 climate change conference, 45 Cornell undergraduate and graduate students plugged in from Ithaca to hear international negotiations first-hand and environmental history.
Derrick Spires will talk about “Defining Democracy: How Black Print Culture Shaped America, Then and Now” Dec. 1 in a Society for the Humanities webcast hosted by eCornell.
