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NYC conference Nov. 3 features leading entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs will gather to hear fireside chats with top business leaders, enjoy multiple networking and engagement opportunities and hear startup pitches at Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s Eclectic Convergence 2023.

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Familiarity breeds contempt for moral failings

People judge members of their own circles more harshly than they judge individuals from other groups for the same transgressions, new Cornell research has found.

‘Desdemona’ celebrates Morrison’s Nobel Prize anniversary

As part of the 30th anniversary celebration of Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Cornell will present the author’s “Desdemona” Oct. 27 and 28 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Research: Nature’s missing evolutionary law identified

An interdisciplinary group of researchers has identified a missing aspect of the theory of evolution that applies to essentially everything.

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Stephens-Davidowitz named Packard Fellow

Noah Stephens-Davidowitz, assistant professor of computer science at Cornell Bowers CIS, has been named a Packard Foundation Fellow for his work in theoretical computer science and cryptography.

Cornell, TCAT reach four-year service agreement

Cornell and Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit have entered into a four-year service agreement that will see the university pay the bus company more than $3.3 million per year, with scheduled increases in years 2, 3 and 4.

Pollack honored with national graduate study diversity award

President Martha E. Pollack has won a national award for her higher-ed leadership in advancing equity in graduate education in STEM-related fields.

Webb detects quartz crystals in clouds of hot gas giant

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected evidence for quartz nanocrystals in the high-altitude clouds of a hot Jupiter exoplanet 1,300 light-years from Earth.

Students from all majors invited to mathematical modeling contest

The annual competition, slated for Nov. 10-13, allows students to work on open-ended real world problems, showcasing the multifaceted nature of applied mathematics. 

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Cornell reaches landmark agreement with City of Ithaca

Cornell will provide a $4 million annual voluntary contribution to the City of Ithaca – an increase of $2.4 million – under a long-term extension of their Memorandum of Understanding approved Oct. 11 by the Ithaca Common Council and Oct. 13 by the executive committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees.

Research: DNA shredder for gene therapy

Ailong Ke explores the naturally occurring CRISPR-Cas3 system and its potential to treat human disease at the genetic level.

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Clothing is key: Van Dyck portrait captures ‘moment in the history of race-making’

Ana Howie used her expertise in cultures of dressing and European imperialism to uncover a story tying Genoa’s elite families to globalized material trade – and Atlantic and Mediterranean slavery.

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