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Program promotes African links, diversity in plant sciences

The Cornell Assistantship for Horticulture in Africa, a program that brings master’s students from sub-Saharan Africa to Cornell to complete doctorate degrees in horticulture, has now added a second assistantship for African Americans. 

Leveraging tech for meaningful work

Employers who use technological advancement to reshape workers’ jobs can help improve patient care while improving the work experience of frontline health care workers, Associate Professor Adam Seth Litwin argues in a peer-reviewed commentary.

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Students reflect on Marsalis visit: ‘He really touched my soul’

Jazz great Wynton Marsalis visited campus as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large, teaching students, giving public talks and playing with Cornell musicians in Bailey Hall.

In the virtual front row, Cornell students saw COP26 unfold

During the COP26 climate change conference, 45 Cornell undergraduate and graduate students plugged in from Ithaca to hear international negotiations first-hand and environmental history.

Professor to speak on Black print culture and democracy

Derrick Spires will talk about “Defining Democracy: How Black Print Culture Shaped America, Then and Now” Dec. 1 in a Society for the Humanities webcast hosted by eCornell. 

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Visiting journalist humanizes the immigration issue

Molly O’Toole '09, the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow in the College of Arts & Sciences this semester, shared career advice, political insights and anecdotes from her work and life during two recent talks.

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New edited volume explores plurality of gender experiences

A new book, “Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern,” co-edited by a Cornell professor, explores what gender might have been before modern medicine, the anatomical sciences and the modern division of gender difference into a binary form.

New cell database paints fuller picture of muscle repair

A single-cell transcriptomic dataset of mouse skeletal muscle established by Cornell Engineers has become a powerful tool for biological discovery.

Bacteria could extract elements for modern tech sustainably

An engineered bacteria may solve challenges of extracting rare earth elements from ore, which are vital for modern life but refining them is costly, environmentally harmful and mostly occurs abroad.

Cornell in Washington interns on front lines of policy debates

From public health to voting rights, Cornell in Washington students are working on timely national issues this semester through internships at federal agencies including the CDC and Justice Department.

First-Generation Student from Harlem Leads College Prep Course for Underprivileged High School Students

Senior Lassan Bagayoko was recently awarded $5,000 through Cornell’s Janet McKinley '74 Family Grant to provide an online college prep program for high school students in underprivileged communities.

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Trading coal cars for e-bikes, rail trail promotes sustainability

With support from Cornell, the Dryden Rail Trail is a step closer to connecting Ithaca and several nearby communities with a corridor that enables off-street commuting and expands access to natural areas.