Center for Social Sciences announces 2021-22 faculty fellows

As CCSS fellows, a dozen faculty members representing seven colleges and schools will pursue ambitious research projects on issues ranging from political polarization to environmental justice.

New course empowers students to address diversity in STEM

The seminar explores the ways in which women, people of color and others have been marginalized in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and how to address exclusion.

Dimensional Energy emerges as $20M Carbon X Prize finalist

Dimensional Energy – a McGovern Center startup that converts carbon dioxide via sunshine into eco-friendly aviation fuel – is a finalist for the $20 million Carbon X Prize.

Global ‘wind atlas’ propels sustainable energy

Cornell wind energy scientists have released a new global wind atlas – a digital compendium filled with documented extreme wind speeds – to improve turbine placement.

Pandemic reshaped ‘small world’ campus networks

The shift to hybrid instruction last fall made face-to-face enrollment networks on campus smaller, less connected and more fragmented, according to an analysis by Cornell sociologists.

Cornell chorale, high school collaborate on commission

A new song set for choir was inspired by students at Cornell and at Longmeadow High School in Longmeadow, Mass., part of an online choral/video project the students created in partnership with composer LJ White.

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Students win State Department Pickering Fellowships

Two undergraduates in the College of Arts & Sciences and a recent graduate of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have been named Pickering Fellows by the U.S. Department of State. These are Cornell’s first Pickering Fellows since 2011.

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Study: Did cobras first spit venom to scare pre-humans?

Researchers investigating the evolutionary origins of a novel defensive trait by snakes – venom spitting – offer the first evidence that snake venom evolution is associated with defense, rather than solely to help capture prey.

Computer model reveals how cortical areas develop and evolve

A new study uses computer modeling to show, for the first time, that the development and evolution of secondary visual cortical areas in the brain can be explained by the same process.