OADI honors scholar-leaders at awards ceremony

The Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives held their ninth annual OADI Honors Awards celebration Friday evening, May 2, at the Statler Hotel.  

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Weill Cornell Medicine boosts medical research, health care, in Tanzania

Weill Cornell Medicine and colleagues in Tanzania are fostering a new generation of M.D./Ph.D. researchers, with implications for improved health care outcomes worldwide.

AI tools help people with speech disabilities make timely jokes

A team of researchers from Cornell Tech is reimagining how technology can support users with speech disabilities – not just in functional speech, but also in making real-time jokes during conversations.

Inclusive Excellence Podcast: Season finale with Kathryn Boor '80

In the season finale of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, co-hosts Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel welcome Kathryn Boor ‘80, dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education for a conversation about her journey at Cornell – both as a student and an academic leader.

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Brain’s ‘blue spot’ key to healthy aging, early Alzheimer’s detection

Specialized MRI scans revealed dramatic changes over the human lifespan in the locus coeruleus, a finding that helps characterize healthy aging patterns.

Muslim chaplain, Diwan Center for Muslim Life awarded Perkins Prize

Cornell’s Muslim chaplain Numan Dugmeoglu, and the Diwan Center for Muslim Life received the 29th annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony during a ceremony April 21 at Willard Straight Hall.

MLB’s international Latino players, coaches face challenges despite diversity efforts

Using Major League Baseball as a case study, Cornell research highlights potential shortcomings in diversity metrics that could obscure inequities in sports and other organizations.

Law professor to discuss his post-Holocaust psalms

Menachem Rosensaft, adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, will read poems from his latest book, “Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz,” on April 21 at White Hall, room 110. A Q&A discussion will follow.

Group offers skills, and friendship, to local students with disabilities

The student-run club works with TST-BOCES students with intellectual disabilities to develop communication and life skills, and a sense of curiosity and confidence, that help them as they transition out of school.