Five companies ‘graduate’ from Cornell incubators

As the pandemic pomp and COVID circumstances dissipate, Cornell’s McGovern Center and Praxis Center incubators graduated five startups, putting them on the road to success.

AI reveals scale of eelgrass vulnerability to warming, disease

A combination of ecological field methods and AI has helped an interdisciplinary research group detect eelgrass wasting disease from San Diego to southern Alaska, and determine that it’s caused by warmer-than-normal water temperatures.

How Herman Melville can help us cope with dark times

“Up from the Depths,” a new book by history professor Aaron Sachs, tells the interconnected stories of writer and poet Herman Melville and the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford, who helped revive Melville from obscurity.

Harnessing machine learning to analyze quantum material

A collaboration led by Eun-Ah Kim, professor in the College of Art and Sciences, employed machine learning to analyze a massive dataset from a quantum metal to settle a debate about this material.

Cornell Law instructor advises NFL on diversity hiring

Michael L. Huyghue ’84, a former NFL general manager, has provided recommendations for improving diversity, equity and inclusion in hiring practices and is meeting with each team’s leadership.

Rapid-fire fast radio burst shows hot space between galaxies

A persistent rapid-fire fast radio burst source – sending out a cosmic ping from more than 3.5 billion light years away – helps reveal the secrets of the broiling space between galaxies.

Considering trauma in tech design could benefit all users

Computing-related retraumatization can be lessened or avoided in a few low- or no-cost ways, according to research co-led by Nicola Dell and Tom Ristenpart of Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.

Amazon River freshwater fish show signs of overexploitation

As the cherished rainforest in South America’s Amazon River region continues to shrink, the river itself now presents evidence of other dangers: the overexploitation of freshwater fish.

“Startup Cornell” podcast features co-founder of Centivax

Our 11th episode features Stephanie Wisner ’16, co-founder of Centivax, a therapeutics company that’s creating universal vaccines to reduce and eradicate the remaining complex pathogens of the 21st century.

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