Transgender women are nearly 20 times more likely to be infected with HIV than the national average in India, a country with the third largest HIV epidemic worldwide. In spite of India’s robust “test and treat” program, which offers free antiretroviral therapy (ART) after a positive test, treatment outcomes among transgender women remain disproportionately poor.
Chloe Ahmann, assistant professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is helping local organizers in their quest for environmental justice — and bringing her students along. For this work, Ahmann was named recipient of this year’s Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship.
Eraldo Souza dos Santos will work on their next book project, “Everything Disappears,” a family memoir and meditation on the lived experience of Blackness and enslavement in modern Brazil.
The Cornell Gamelan Ensemble and a collection of antique instruments sparked the formation of Twin Court – a band that melds rock and traditional Indonesian music.
Don’t expect a broader backlash against President Donald Trump's flurry of executive orders simply because they may rest on shaky legal ground, new Cornell research suggests.
This year’s space-themed event raised $11,206,717 from 17,591 donors, for a total of 25,929 gifts making a tangible show of support for causes across the university.
A person’s “bioenergetic age” – or how youthfully their cells generate energy – might be a key indicator of whether they’re at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, new research from Weill Cornell Medicine shows.
Researchers have identified exactly what happens when a microbe receives an electron from a quantum dot: The charge can either follow a direct pathway or be transferred indirectly via the microbe’s shuttle molecules.
