Five companies ‘graduate’ from Cornell incubators

As the pandemic pomp and COVID circumstances dissipate, Cornell’s McGovern Center and Praxis Center incubators graduated five startups, putting them on the road to success.

AI reveals scale of eelgrass vulnerability to warming, disease

A combination of ecological field methods and AI has helped an interdisciplinary research group detect eelgrass wasting disease from San Diego to southern Alaska, and determine that it’s caused by warmer-than-normal water temperatures.

How Herman Melville can help us cope with dark times

“Up from the Depths,” a new book by history professor Aaron Sachs, tells the interconnected stories of writer and poet Herman Melville and the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford, who helped revive Melville from obscurity.

New book documents lives of unaccompanied minors

For six years, Klarman Fellow Chaira Galli helped youths from Central America navigate the United States’ labyrinthine asylum process while doing an ethnographic study.

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Harnessing machine learning to analyze quantum material

A collaboration led by Eun-Ah Kim, professor in the College of Art and Sciences, employed machine learning to analyze a massive dataset from a quantum metal to settle a debate about this material.

Students, formerly incarcerated people publish book of creative works

PMA class members produced a book of their writings, exploring their own stories and their discoveries about each other.

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Klarman Fellow traces ideas of slavery from ancient Rome to upstate NY

Toni Alimi’s book project, “Slaves of God,” delves deep into the Augustine cannon, explaining the philosopher’s reasons for justifying slavery.

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Rapid-fire fast radio burst shows hot space between galaxies

A persistent rapid-fire fast radio burst source – sending out a cosmic ping from more than 3.5 billion light years away – helps reveal the secrets of the broiling space between galaxies.

Michael Koch, Epoch editor, remembered for ‘quiet grace’

Michael Koch, the longtime editor of Cornell’s renowned literary magazine and lecturer in the Creative Writing Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, died on May 27 after a brief illness. He was 75.