Reducing interview anxiety for autistic applicants

To reduce the challenges of job searching, autistic applicants should rehearse socially appropriate responses and practice answering interview questions about teamwork with examples from previous experiences.

Roper Center renews decade-long partnership with Cornell

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research will remain at Cornell for another 10 years, the longest term in the partnership’s history, as of Aug. 1.

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James Lloyd, astronomer and spacecraft engineer, dies at 55

James Lloyd, professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences who worked at the intersection of astronomy, instrumentation and spacecraft engineering to find innovative ways to study and characterize exoplanets, died on July 15 in Ithaca.

Satellite imagery could protect trees from devastating moth outbreaks

Satellite-derived maps of defoliation caused by European spongy moths offer a promising solution for tracking pest outbreaks and for identifying large scale trends. 

Insights into bee biology could ease US rules for organic honey

Strict regulations have prevented continental U.S. beekeepers from participating in the lucrative organic honey market, but new findings could provide evidence to open organic markets to U.S. producers.

Humble grain, big question: Could supercharged millet help children’s gut health?

The fight against childhood malnutrition may have just gotten a new tool in biofortified millet.

Inflammation may drive rare epileptic syndrome

An overactive immune response in the brain may play a role in Dravet syndrome, a rare and severe genetic epilepsy that typically begins in infancy, according to Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.

Cornell researchers teach ‘microwave brain’ a new language

One year after unveiling a first-of-its-kind “microwave brain” microchip capable of computing on ultrafast data and wireless signals, researchers from the Cornell Duffield College of Engineering have shown how the chip can encode information into its own language.

Cornell leads a Lake Ontario food web study in $1.5M Sea Grant research suite

Cornell University’s James Watkins and Kade Keranen are leading a nearly $240,000 study to examine the abundance of mysid, small, shrimp-like crustaceans that are critical links in Lake Ontario’s aquatic food web.

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