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Music fans separate artists’ controversies from their art, study finds

Music streaming platforms such as Spotify hold tremendous power over whether fans listen to a musical artist, while social media boycotts have less impact, according to a new Cornell study.

Hospitality competition winner plans to expand restaurant into a chain

Master’s student Avery Sheppard won $25,000 to put toward her fish and chips eatery by winning the Nolan School’s hospitality business plan competition, held April 18 in Statler Auditorium.

Kotlikoff among four faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

President Michael I. Kotlikoff and professors Olga Boudker, Cathy Caruth and Francesca Molinari have been recognized by the honorary society for their excellence and leadership.

Inside Studio: A conversation with Josh Hartmann

At the heart of Cornell Tech’s hands-on, interdisciplinary approach is Studio, a program that brings students together across disciplines to build, test, and launch real-world solutions.

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Making big tech algorithms ‘fair’ is harder than it looks

Research from Cornell Tech shows that before big tech engineers can improve the fairness of recommendation systems they need to define what “fairness” even means.

Students pitch startups at Autodesk Gallery

Students from the eLab Student Startup Accelerator, the Runway Startups Postdocs Program at Cornell Tech and BioVenture eLab at Weill Cornell Medicine made their annual trek to San Francisco for the Cornell Silicon Valley: Student Startup Showcase to pitch their innovative startups at Autodesk Gallery on March 26.

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Harvard economist to deliver Knight Lecture

Edward Glaeser’s talk, "Let's talk about cities, housing and infrastructure,” will take place from 4:30-6 p.m. in Malott Hall, Room 228.

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Funding renewed for NSF Energy Storage Engine in Upstate New York

The NSF Energy Storage Engine in Upstate New York, an initiative led by Binghamton University with Cornell serving as a core partner for technology translation, has secured $45 million in renewed funding for the next three years.

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Celebration Ezra event honors entrepreneurs from across fields

More than 200 alumni came to campus for this year’s Celebration Ezra event focused on entrepreneurship.

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