Pianist Jonathan Biss featured on Cornell Concert Series Feb. 21

Biss is a performer, teacher and musical thinker whose on-stage repertoire ranges from the core canon to contemporary commissions. He will perform works by Franz Schubert and Tyson Gholston Davis. 

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Transdisciplinary project aims to prevent the next pandemic

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. 

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Experiences matter more than labels in citizen science projects

A study tracked users of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Habitat Network platform, comparing "citizen science" and "environmental stewardship" labeling in the environmentally focused yard mapping tool. 

Ukrainian educator gains nation-rebuilding skills with eCornell

Inna Semenenko is one of several Ukrainian citizens and refugees who are earning professional certificates from Cornell through a social impact collaboration between eCornell and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

X-ray study sheds light on cost-effective fuel cell materials

Cornell researchers have captured an unprecedented, real-time view of how a promising catalyst material transforms during operation, providing new insights that could lead to replacement of expensive precious metals in clean-energy technologies.

CCE, Cornell leads and assists four Sea Grant projects in $2.5M research suite

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County Marine Program is leading a nearly $164,000 study to examine the effects of LED lights in fishery pots targeting Jonah crab in New York.

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Media Objects podcast releases 'sonic essays' based at Cornell

Beginning Feb. 6 with the drop of the episode, “Extensions," the five-episode series features the voices and research of thirteen Cornell faculty members, more than half of them from A&S.

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Power of babble: Babies elicit simpler speech from adults

Across languages and cultures, parents simplify their speech in response to babies’ babbling and early speech, supporting language development, new Cornell research finds.

Arthur Ruoff, professor and high-pressure scientist, dies at 94

Arthur L. Ruoff, professor emeritus and former director of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, died Jan. 14 in Ithaca. Ruoff was 94.