Gender bias in lab groups not rooted in personal preference

A team led by Natasha Holmes, the Ann S. Bowers Assistant Professor, set out to interview and survey physics undergraduates to see what role their preferences play in the well-documented gender disparities in physics lab courses. 

Startup roundup: New alliances for Ava Labs

Cornell startups Ava Labs have new key partnerships with Deloitte and Mastercard, while university startup companies SwiftScale Biologics and Novomer have been acquired.

‘Lab on a chip’ can measure protein-DNA interactions

New nanophotonic tweezers developed by Cornell researchers can stretch and unzip DNA molecules as well as disrupt and map protein-DNA interactions, paving the way for commercial availability.

Hans Bethe’s Nobel Prize medal given to library

The family of Hans Bethe recently donated his Nobel Prize medal, earned for his theory on the energy production of stars, to the archives of Cornell University Library. The medal now holds a special place among the physicist's papers from his 60-year teaching career at Cornell.

Cornell to co-lead NIH center for precision nutrition research

The Division of Nutritional Sciences and partner RTI International won a five-year, $23 million award to coordinate research for the NIH’s Nutrition for Precision Health study.

Choudhury, Kleinberg and Marschner named ACM Fellows

The Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest and most prestigious society of computing professionals, has named Tanzeem Choudhury, Robert D. Kleinberg, and Steve Marschner 2021 ACM Fellows. 

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Historian delves into LGBTQ life and the American home

The intimacy of domestic space was a crucial aspect of LGBTQ life in the postwar era, according to historian Stephen Vider, who explores that history in his new book, “The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II.” 

A Collegetown mural memorializes loved ones lost to illness

Yerkezhan Abuova ’23 memorialized her grandmothers in a Collegetown mural, painting them surrounded by animals, tulips and waterlilies. She hopes it will comfort viewers who grieve.

New grant seeks to fund creative campus energy projects

With over 20 years of deep investments in energy conservation on campus, staff are looking for creative partnerships with members of the campus community to identify new ways to save energy.

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