Each summer at Jones Beach State Park, Cornell Cooperative Extension Nassau County and partners engage more than 200 local kids, often from under-resourced communities, with marine wildlife and ecology, water safety and sustainability education.
Dr. Jennifer Downs of Weill Cornell Medicine is collaborating with Tanzanian researchers to treat schistosomiasis, a parasitic worm infection affecting 250 million people worldwide.
Out of love for their daughters and their alma mater, Cornell faculty Mao Ye, Ph.D. '11, and Xi Yang, Ph.D. '10, created the Cornelia Ye and Christine Ye Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards. The awards recognize excellence in graduate teaching and the important role that TAs play in the classroom.
On Aug. 8-9, Claire de Boer ’84 will swim the full length of the lake, as she did in 1984, but with a slight twist: She’ll do it as part of a two-person relay, and do it as a fundraiser for a local organization that supports mental health initiatives.
Cornell Tech Assistant Professor Raaz Dwivedi has co-founded Traversal, a startup emerging from stealth this week with a mission: to transform how modern software systems detect and resolve outages using artificial intelligence.
For 10 years, the Youth CAN program has empowered students in Buffalo schools to execute projects that contribute to their communities, while gaining skills and experiences that will help them build careers.
