First row, left-to-right: Jingye (Ellie) Duan, Laura Gunn and Mario Herrero. Second row, left-to-right: Ian Owens, Chris Roh and Vivek Srikrishnan. Photos by Allison Usavage.
Learn how students across the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have taken actions over the past year to make our community a more diverse, equitable and inclusive place for everyone.
The virtual Sustainable Tourism Destination Management course seeks to educate and build cooperation at the regional level to protect environmental, social, and cultural heritage while facilitating inclusive community processes.
Maureen Waller, a professor in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Sociology, will study racial and economic disparities in driver’s license suspensions through her selection as Access to Justice Scholar. Waller will examine people’s lived experiences with having a suspended license as well as recent and potential reforms in New York to end “debt-based” suspensions.
As part of a new cross-college initiative designed to accelerate engineering innovations in medicine, Cornell Engineering is piloting an M.D.-M.Eng. program that allows medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine to earn a one-year professional Master of Engineering degree.
Bhargav Sanketi won the Council of Graduate Schools Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. 3MT challenges graduate students to present their thesis research compellingly to general audiences in just three minutes.
Cooper Sirwatka began running ultramarathons five or six years ago, building up endurance to go well over the standard 26.2 miles. Long distances, rough terrain and unpredictable environments are elements that Sirwatka thrives in best—whether on race day or in the workplace.
The Cornell Veterans Colleague Network Group (VCNG) and the College of Human Ecology co-sponsored a “lunch and learn” discussion on May 26, 2023, that focused on the ethics of leadership and design.