Student draws on experience to transform assistive communication

At 15, Tobias Weinberg lost the ability to speak - now as a Ph.D. student at Cornell Tech, he's using AI to improve the technologies he and others with speech disabilities rely on to communicate. 

Cornell launches residency program in wildlife population health

The new four-year program — one of only three wildlife-focused veterinary residencies in North America to be approved by the American College of Zoological Medicine (ACZM) — responds to a growing need for veterinarians trained in free-ranging wildlife health, a discipline that bridges individual patient care and population-level management. 

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Cornellians lead Lancet special issue on improving planetary diets

Cornell’s Food Systems and Global Change group coordinated a special issue of The Lancet Planetary Health, which advocates for transforming food systems to ensure sustainability and healthy diets for everyone. 

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Medical anthropologist to deliver annual Society for Humanities lecture

Stacey Langwick, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Arts & Sciences, will speaking on "Healing in a Toxic World: Reimagining the Times and Spaces of the Therapeutic." 

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Knitting machine makes solid 3D objects

A multicollege team has developed a prototype of a knitting machine that creates solid, knitted shapes, adding stitches in any direction so users can construct a wide variety of shapes and add stiffness to different parts of the object.

How biodiversity startups raise capital

Biodiversity startups raise less capital than other startups but attract a broader coalition of investors, according to a new analysis that used machine learning to sift through venture capital databases.

Did a good deed? Don’t tell anyone

People say they would feel worse telling others about their charitable acts than if they kept the news to themselves, or told others about their personal achievements, the study found. 

First WCM-Q AI Hackathon drives health care tech innovation

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar hosted its first AI Hackathon – a collaborative, interdisciplinary event that brought together medical and computer science students to develop AI-driven solutions for pressing clinical challenges.

Neural implant smaller than salt grain wirelessly tracks brain

Cornell researchers and collaborators have developed a neural implant so small that it can rest on a grain of salt, yet it can wirelessly transmit brain activity data in a living animal for more than a year.