Kidney disease and climate change in Nicaragua’s sugarcane zone

 “What is happening to the kidneys of sugarcane workers is not a result of climate change. It is climate change": Anthropologist Alex Nading documents how environmental justice activists are addressing the epidemic. 

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Cornell Law School Welcomes the J.D. Class of 2028

On August 19, Cornell Law School welcomed 218 students of the J.D. Class of 2028 to their first day of Orientation, marking the beginning of an exciting chapter in their legal education.

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Entrepreneurial students flock to kickoff event

The event featured more than 30 resource tables and pitches from four students hoping to be part of eLab.

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Book explores how animals are dashing, stampeding into fiction

Elisha Cohn's second book, “Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel,” also explores the methods authors are using to give animals a voice.

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Keynote speaker: Embrace your identity for success in grad school and beyond

Erika Tatiana Camacho, Ph.D. '03, gives the alumni keynote during the 2025 Summer Success Symposium, an opportunity for research graduate students.

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Rooms with a ‘view score’: Software aids building designers

Viewscore.io can simulate and score occupants' satisfaction with window views, helping designers optimize buildings' facades, floor plans and energy efficiency.

Is there water on an Earth-sized exoplanet? Study offers clues

TRAPPIST-1 e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away, may have an atmosphere that could support having liquid water on the planet’s surface in the form of a global ocean or icy surface.

Ethnomusicologist Martin Hatch, professor of music emeritus, dies at 83

Martin F. Hatch Jr., Ph.D. ’80, professor of music emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Aug. 23 in Ithaca, New York. He was 83.

Hockey legend Ken Dryden ’69 dies at 78

Ken Dryden ’69, the legendary Cornell men’s hockey goaltender who still holds the program record for career wins and backstopped the Big Red to its first national title in 1967, died of cancer Friday. He was 78.