Kavita Bala, dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, is quoted in this piece about universities – including Cornell – collaborating to invest in computing power and infrastructure that enhance the development of AI research.

Gautam Hans, associate clinical professor and associate director of the First Amendment Clinic at Cornell Law School, predicts there will be at least “some state appetite” to keep passing laws pertaining to content curation or algorithms, by paying close attention to what the justices left out from the most recent decision.

 

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine conducted a study in women who were 24 to 36 weeks into pregnancy, and found no significant statistical difference between the vaccinated women's pre-term birth rate of 5.9% compared with unvaccinated women's 6.7%.

This piece about the Bartels Science Illustration Program at the Lab of Ornithology features program coordinator and biological illustrator Jillian Ditner, as well as past participants in the program.

Fengqi You, an energy systems engineering researcher at Cornell, mentions oil refineries, buildings, and transportation as more impactful at the present moment. “Those sectors use much more energy compared to AI data centers right now.”

While the modern party’s legitimacy is based on a growing and diverse range of sources, “performance-based legitimacy” remains a central pillar of stability, as it has for many decades, said Eli Friedman from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labour Relations.

The article mentions a study by Sharon Sassler, a sociologist at Cornell, on gender wage gaps in the computer science field.

Advice on mentoring is sourced from Ruth Gotian, co-author of The Financial Times Guide to Mentoring and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine.

It’s meant to be their way of decompressing or staving off burnout after a long work week, but the trend could be doing more harm than good, according to Samantha Boardman, a psychiatrist and clinical instructor at Weill-Cornell Medical College and author of the book “Everyday Vitality, Turning Stress Into Strength.”

When fertilizers and herbicides became widely available after World War II, manufacturers were eager to sell them not only to farmers but also to homeowners, says Nancy Gift, a weed ecologist who is executive director of Cornell Cooperative Extension.

This reporter's experiment worked because she essentially hijacked her brain’s natural decision-making habits, says Vanessa Bohns, a professor of organizational behavior.

In this op-ed, professor of practice Alistair Hayden argues that FEMA must declare heat waves a disaster - and unleash the resources necessary to mitigate them.