Most pandemics in the past century were sparked by a pathogen jumping from animals to humans. This moment of zoonotic spillover is the focus of a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Raina Plowright, the Rudolf J. and Katharine L. Steffen Professor in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Public and Ecosystem Health.
A pair of published papers released by the CAROW Initiative on Home Care Work shows that unionized direct care workers are likely to earn more money and are more likely to have employer-sponsored health care insurance and pension plans than non-unionized direct care workers.
A Cornell Tech-led research group is in the early stages of developing a portable, inexpensive device that uses radio frequency signals and machine learning to measure lead contamination levels in soil.
The warming of lakes in the Adirondacks, the death of long-time benefactor and alumnus Ratan Tata ’59, B.Arch. ’62, and the retirement of Martha E. Pollack as president were among the most-viewed Chronicle stories of 2024.
The Brooks Tech Policy Institute has received $3 million from the Department of Defense to establish the U.S. Semiconductor Research Hub, which will assess and improve the resilience of the global network of semiconductor infrastructure.
Experts’ more stringent online reviews have the effect of compressing aggregate ratings by penalizing higher-quality products compared to their lower-quality alternatives. To address this problem, a research team developed a method for de-biasing ratings.
Eclectic Convergence, a yearly event hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, included featured speakers, networking, a pitch contest and tabling by student businesses.
A new study by Cornell information science researchers finds that ignoring race in college admissions leads to an admitted class that is much less diverse, but with similar academic credentials to those where affirmative action is factored in.
