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New grant seeks to fund creative campus energy projects

With over 20 years of deep investments in energy conservation on campus, staff are looking for creative partnerships with members of the campus community to identify new ways to save energy.

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Fear of majority-minority changes perceptions of race

The threat of demographic change may alter who white Americans perceive as racial minorities, potentially making more people vulnerable to discrimination, suggests new Cornell psychology research.

Winter Session celebrates 25 years of digital learning

Victoria Jones, PhD ’01, talks about what it was like to teach one of Cornell's first digital credit-bearing courses in 1997 for Winter Session.

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First generation graduate students give back

The First Generation and Low Income Graduate Student Organization partnered with the Tompkins Cortland Community College to offer programming over the fall semester as part of their ongoing outreach initiatives.

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Paid home care workers go well beyond standard duties

A study also revealed that expanded duties, particularly emotional care, resulted in a higher perceived value of the workers’ contributions, which could help boost pay for home care workers.

Don Barton, former director of Cornell AgriTech, dies at 100

Barton, who joined the Cornell faculty in 1951, served as the ninth director of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva – now known as Cornell AgriTech – from 1960 until his retirement in 1982.

Film reveals efforts to save world’s rarest stork

A new film, “Hargila,” illustrates how the greater adjutant stork is slowly being pulled back from the brink of extinction thanks to a community effort inspired by a wildlife biologist in India.

A Q&A with Dr. Katharyn Mitchell of the veterinary college

Mitchell recently joined the College of Veterinary Medicine as assistant professor in the section of large animal internal medicine.

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Capitalizing on time in race to breed inclusive, resilient crops

A cowpea breeder at CICI-ESA hosts a meeting with farmers as part of a comprehensive value chain gender analysis survey.

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Rwandan hospitality professionals celebrate Cornell certificate recognition

In a ceremony this October, the Hanga Ahazaza Initiative celebrated Rwanda’s rapidly strengthening hospitality and tourism sector, a foundational piece of the country’s economic development strategy.

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Researchers from ILR, MIT Sloan win grant for worker study

“Achieving Greater Worker Voice, Equity, and Mobility: A Multi-Industry Study of Organizing Efforts and Their Outcomes,” will be led by Labor Education Research Director Kate Bronfenbrenner and MIT Professor Thomas A. Kochan.

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Students engage with Black ‘memory workers’ in NYC

An interdisciplinary seminar in the fall semester took students from Ithaca to New York City to explore African American heritage sites and the people whose work keeps this history alive.