Music student helps expand Ethiopian nun’s musical legacy

Thomas Feng, a doctoral student in performance practice, is identifying and cataloging the piano music of the late Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, a composer with a cult following.

Unused renewable energy an option for powering NFT trade

Unused solar, wind and hydroelectric power in the U.S. could support the exponential growth of transactions involving non-fungible tokens, Cornell Engineering researchers have found.

Dashcam images reveal where police are deployed

Using a deep learning computer model and dashcam images from New York City rideshare drivers, Cornell Tech researchers were able to see which neighborhoods had the highest numbers of New York Police Department marked vehicles.

Online ‘sexual double standard’ disadvantages women

In a study by Cornell psychology researchers, female applicants for scholarships or jobs were viewed less favorably than males when study participants, acting as decision-makers, were shown “sexy” social media photos of the applicants.

Endless opportunities: Institute prepares aspiring faculty

The fifth Future Professors Institute invited aspiring faculty to engage with current faculty from a diversity of backgrounds and institutional types and think about the balance between workload, writing and the workforce.

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Grants support summer language study

The Graduate School offers Summer Foreign Language Grants to help humanities students engage in summer learning opportunities. Thirteen doctoral students were awarded grants for study during summer 2023.

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After 15 years, gravitational waves detected as cosmic ‘hum’

A collaboration including Cornell astrophysicists has found the first evidence of low-frequency gravitational waves believed to be generated by merging pairs of supermassive black holes.

Spouses sharing friends may live longer after widowhood

The “widowhood effect” – the tendency for married people to die in close succession – is accelerated when spouses don’t know each other’s friends well, new Cornell sociology research finds.

Exoplanet may reveal secrets about the edge of habitability

A recently discovered exoplanet may provide insights about conditions at the inner edge of a star’s habitable zone, and why Earth and Venus developed so differently, according to new astronomy research led by Lisa Kaltenegger.