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Symposium highlights Alzheimer’s research breakthroughs

Advances in scientific innovation are leading to powerful discoveries about Alzheimer’s and neurodegenerative diseases according to experts at the Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute Symposium.

New technique captures real-time movies of a molecular pump

Scientists have captured the first video recordings of a key protein whose function is essential to a deadly foodborne bacteria.

Chemical engineer turned CEO: ‘Wonderful time to be an entrepreneur’

Robert F. Smith '85, Cornell's Entrepreneur of the Year for 2017, spoke with engineering dean Lance Collins Nov. 3 in NYC.

Saving Coney Island from the roller coaster of climate change

As sea levels rise, the Coney Island peninsula may become uninhabitable. Cornell landscape architecture graduate students wrestle with the island’s tenable, livable resilience as nature aims to reclaim it.

ILR School forum: Tech promises jobs for people with disabilities

An ILR School forum in New York City focused on improving employment outcomes for people with disabilities in the tech sector.

Denise Young Smith is Cornell Tech’s next executive-in-residence

Denise Young Smith, Apple vice president of inclusion and diversity, will become executive-in-residence at Cornell Tech in January 2018.

Entrepreneurs converge with students, alumni, faculty and staff at Summit

More than 500 people including alumni, faculty and students, gathered in New York City for Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s sixth Summit Nov. 3.

Dr. Anthony Hollenberg appointed chairman of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine

Dr. Anthony Hollenberg has been appointed chairman of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.

High schoolers spawn fish, grow lettuce on NYC school rooftop

Public officials and proud parents of Food and Finance High School students toured a first-of-its-kind aquaponics greenhouse at the school on Oct. 25.