From Milstein scholar to design tech pioneer

Julia Beitel is pursuing a master’s in Design Technology at Cornell Tech, creating projects that fuse design, sustainability, and technology.

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‘Hemp house’ project kicks off new support for NYS hemp

With a $5 million investment from New York state, Cornell is building a processing hub and “service center,” where businesses can research, develop and prototype new hemp-based materials. 

Brain stimulation during sleep boosts weak memories in mice

Manipulating mouse brains during sleep improved their ability to remember new experiences that would normally be forgotten – a finding with important implications for treating Alzheimer’s disease.

Research resumed: Stopped projects come back to life

The federal research funding supporting projects across the university, including the development of a pediatric heart pump, has been restarted, but those lost months of work will have a lasting impact.

CVG Stories highlights growth of genomics at Cornell

More than 20 years after its founding, the Center for Vertebrate Genomics (CVG) heard from a Cornellian who was there for its launch: President Michael I. Kotlikoff, who helped shape the university’s genomics landscape.

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Seamless tech: ‘OriStitch’ threads computation and 3D textiles

Researchers from the Cornell Bowers have developed OriStitch, a new software and fabrication system that takes simple 3D objects and spins them into a design for a textile version using carefully placed stitches in fabric.

Cake-pan telescope searches the sky for fast radio bursts

The Global Radio Explorer telescope is a series of eight terminals being built and tested at Cornell and the California Institute of Technology, and installed at locations around the world.

US communities are getting older – and more livable

Communities tracked by AARP's Livability Index made progress becoming more age friendly, but housing affordability and health care access remain challenges.

How ‘free money’ helped low-income workers stay employed

A small, unexpected tax benefit helped low-income Canadians continue working, contrary to what classic economic theory would predict.