Caffeinated snack wins top banana in national contest

CaféNana, a banana-inspired, caffeinated pick-me-up snack, partly made with food waste by Cornell students, has won the Institute of Food Technology’s Mars Wrigley Product Development competition.

Current takes a surprising path in quantum material

Cornell researchers used magnetic imaging to obtain the first direct visualization of how electrons flow in quantum anomalous Hall insulators, and by doing so they discovered the transport current moves through the interior of the material.

Floating an energy idea: Scientists study solar panel-topped ponds

Steve Grodsky, assistant professor of natural resources, and a multidisciplinary team of researchers, soon will learn how solar panels placed on top of water bodies can affect the biology of aquatic systems.

Programs offer insight into graduate school admissions, application processes

The Consider Cornell programming series, created by the Graduate School Office of Access and Recruitment, seeks to provide guidance to prospective graduate students on the next step in their academic journeys.

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That’s funny – but AI models don’t get the joke

Is artificial intelligence beginning to “understand” humor? In experiments using the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest as a testbed, researchers found that it’s making some progress, but isn’t quite there yet.

Inaugural 2023 Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Announced

Eight graduate students from across the U.S. to attend inaugural Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium in Oct. 2023

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Blamed for fouling the environment, polyester may help save it

In a fast-fashion, throw-clothes-away world, textile expert Juan Hinestroza (Human Ecology) and a group of scientists have new ways to recycle wasted polyester into new useful products.

Bulky size frustrates radical molecules to boost chemical reactions

Cornell researchers attached large fragments to temperamental "radical" molecules, increasing their girth to insulate them from their hyperreactive partners  – a method that could help create improved derivatives of pharmaceutical compounds.

Learning to lead inclusively

The summer 2023 Colman Inclusive Leadership Program helped 28 doctoral students enhance their leadership skills through readings, group activities, case studies and discussion about practical skills and leadership theories.

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