Statistical machine learning can find unknown factors behind disease

A new method can now find previously unknown factors that underlie disease by using statistical machine learning to sort through mountains of complex biological data. 

Cornell introduces its 2024 Kessler Fellows cohort

The Kessler Fellows program welcomed 20 students to its 2024 cohort. The students will spend their spring semester sharpening entrepreneurial skills while preparing for a fully funded summer internship at a startup of their choice. 

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Physics Ph.D. candidate wins 2024 Three Minute Thesis competition

Meagan Sundstrom won Cornell’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. 3MT challenges graduate students to present their thesis research compellingly to general audiences in just three minutes.

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Nicholas Kiefer, economist and ‘towering intellect,’ dies at 73

Nicholas Kiefer, an economist whose deep curiosity and sharp insights into statistics and economic theory enabled him to parse a range of financial and banking systems, died March 12.

Like it or not, lies should be protected under First Amendment

Cybersecurity expert Jeff Kosseff said in a talk at Cornell Bowers CIS that the constitutional right to lie extends to every American, so long as the high judicial bar for fraud, defamation or another narrow category of speech isn’t met.

Students from 29 campuses join forces for health hackathon

Teams addressed the weekend’s patient safety challenges related to medication, patient care, procedures/surgery, infection and diagnostic error.

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Code Afrique returns to Ghana to share opportunities in tech

Ghana’s fledgling tech sector has a chicken-and-egg problem: To grow, it needs trained, local workers, but without existing job opportunities, students don’t pursue degrees in computer science.

Cornell Tech’s Pierson named Schmidt AI2050 fellow

Emma Pierson, assistant professor of computer science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, has been awarded an AI2050 Early Career Fellowship from Schmidt Sciences for her work seeking to use AI to promote equity.

Former CEO of BET shares her struggles, successes

Debra Lee, former CEO of Black Entertainment Television, spoke to the Cornell community Feb. 20 about her journey from growing up in the segregated South to shattering glass ceilings while becoming one of the most powerful businesspeople in America.