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The Annual XR Access Symposium: Shaping the Future of Accessible Extended Reality

The 2024 XR Access Symposium, held at Cornell Tech in New York City, brought together industry leaders, researchers, and advocates to discuss the role of extended reality (XR) in fostering digital accessibility. Under the theme …

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Packed house for inaugural Farm to School Summit

In November, mmore than 500 stakeholders gathered at the OnCenter in Syracuse for the 2024 New York Far to School Summit, cohosted by Cornell Cooperative Extension's Harvest New York team. 

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Beer sold in grocery stores drives higher sales in other categories

Beer-purchasing households visit grocery stores more frequently and increase their total monthly grocery expenditures.

“Workers want a say in their work”

“Voice gap,” which measures a worker’s perceived gap between desired and actual influence at work, significantly impacts job-related outcomes, such as job satisfaction, according to new research by ILR Assistant Professor Duanyi Yang. 

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Six Cornell faculty win White House early career awards

The White House has recognized six Cornell faculty members, three from the Ithaca campus and three from Weill Cornell Medicine, with 2025 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The awards were announced Jan. 14.

Researchers put the shine on digitally rendered feathers

Computer animators and video game designers may soon have a better way to create the purple-green sheen of a grackle’s wing, or the pink flash on a hummingbird’s throat, thanks to a new method for rendering iridescent feathers.

AI, quantum drive discovery of peptides for microplastic cleanup

A research team led by Cornell has demonstrated how quantum computing and artificial intelligence can be used to design new peptides capable of capturing microplastics that pose serious risks to ecosystems and human health.

New biodegradable graft could help cardiovascular patients

The first-of-its-kind material not only expands and contracts like blood vessels but is also biodegradable; new vascular cells to grow around the graft as the body absorbs it.

National Tutoring Observatory to accelerate the science of teaching

A Cornell-led collaborative research team has received a nearly $5 million grant from the Gates Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to leverage artificial intelligence and transform data on effective teaching practices into insights that can accelerate the science of teaching and learning.

Imaging technique reveals first 2D chainmail-like material

An advanced imaging technique developed at Cornell has revealed the first two-dimensional, mechanically interlocked polymer – resembling the links in chainmail - confirming a breakthrough in both material design and electron microscopy.

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Reimagining informal housing in Mathare, Kenya

Negotiating the challenges of safe, reliable, and affordable housing, Cornell AAP architecture and planning students collaborated with Slum Dwellers International and local residents to explore alternative housing design and construction strategies for Mathare, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.

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How a pervasive microorganism generates a greenhouse gas

Cornell researchers have discovered a way for ammonia oxidizing archaea, one of the most abundant types of microorganisms on Earth, to produce nitrous oxide, a potent and long-lasting greenhouse gas.