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NSF grant to fund entrepreneurial growth, innovation

The Upstate New York Alliance for Entrepreneurial Innovation has been awarded $4.2 million from the National Science Foundation to lead entrepreneurship and commercialization support programs.

Now is the lightest you will weigh all year

For the average person, the time before the start of the holiday season is the low point in an annual weight gain pattern that peaks during the holidays and takes nearly half a year to fully shed.

New book examines powerful Peruvian church murals

'Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes' by Ananda Cohen Suarez examines Peruvian church wall paintings of the 16th through the early 19th centuries

Ph.D. student lands Microsoft research fellowship for women

Alane Suhr, a first-year doctoral student in the field of computer science, has received one of 10 Microsoft Research Women’s Fellowships awarded this year.

Cornell research points the way to better hard cider

Consumer interest in hard cider in North America has surged and Cornell research is revealing ways apples grown with specific orchard management practices can produce more desirable hard cider.

Cancer killers: C dots show ability to induce cell death in tumors

Research involving cancer-targeting silica particles, known as Cornell dots, has shown that the particles can neutralize nutrient-deprived cancer cells by a cell-death process called ferroptosis.

$23M NSF grant powers new science, technology center

A collaboration of scientists, led by physics professor Ritchie Patterson, aims to increase the intensity of beams of charged particles while lowering the cost of key accelerator technologies.

Palestinian-Syrian refugees focus of play 'Desert of Light'

Playwright Rama Haydar's 'Desert of Light,' having its premiere at the Schwartz Center, gives an inside perspective on Palestinian refugees in war-torn Syria.

Housing priorities vary by class year, survey says

The results of Cornell's Housing Master Plan survey taken last spring show that housing preferences for first year, upper division undergraduate and graduate/professional students differ somewhat, but all look for easy access to many of the same amenities.

Grants help students afford unpaid summer internships

With the help of alumni gifts and the Student Assembly, 19 Arts and Sciences students took unpaid summer internships to boost their resumes and help them determine what they want to do.

$1M expands food safety capabilities at Geneva campus

Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva is poised to expand its food development and technology commercialization capabilities with $1 million in new state funding.

Burton, Aching are Provost's Fellows for Public Engagement

Faculty members M. Diane Burton and Gerard Aching have accepted appointments as Provost's Fellows for Public Engagement, serving the university's public engagement mission over the next three years.