Vertebrate 3D scan project opens collections to all

A venture to digitize vertebrate museum collections and make them freely available online for anyone to access has created 3D CT scans of some 13,000 specimens.

‘A completely different game’: Faculty, students harness AI in the classroom

Faculty members are finding creative ways to deal with generative AI in their courses. Winners of Cornell’s 2024 Teaching Innovation Awards will discuss their approaches on April 11.

Opposing views of regulation emerge at Durland Lecture

This year’s Lewis H. Durland Memorial Lecture, held March 25 in Statler Auditorium, was a conversation between two finance experts with opposing ideological views; it was tied to Cornell’s academic theme year, “Freedom of Expression.”

Protect habitat to prevent pandemics

While world public health agencies are focused on how to react to the next pandemic once it has started, a new plan proposes using ecological perspectives to prevent disease outbreaks before they happen.

Insights from patient who cleared hepatitis C could lead to vaccine

By studying individuals who spontaneously clear hepatitis C infections, a team of researchers has identified viable vaccine targets for a disease that infects 70 million worldwide. 

Flexible due dates lower student stress without loss of rigor

Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have created an “extension without penalty” system that features two assignment deadlines – an “ideal” and an EWP – and charted how the penalty-free extensions were used by students.

Mars Sample Return a top scientific priority, Lunine testifies

Samples of Martian rock and soil could be stranded if Congress doesn't adequately fund a NASA mission to retrieve them, Astronomy Chair Jonathan Lunine told a U.S. House subcommittee on March 21.

Talk by Italian author on his writing and his papers donated to the library, March 26

Alain Elkann discusses his literary and journalistic work at library-hosted event. 

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To vape or not to vape: When an e-cigarette tax has an impact

The Johnson School research suggests that taxation could have an impact on reducing vaping among young people.

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