Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s five boroughs and surrounding suburbs.
Jennie Joseph, founder and president of Commonsense Childbirth, hosted a public lecture, met with students and faculty, spoke in classes and engaged with the Ithaca community. The visiting scholar initiative honors the legacy of Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, the first Black woman in the U.S. to earn a doctorate in nutrition and the first to receive a Ph.D. in any subject at Cornell.
Five professors from across campus will advocate that their discipline is the most important to save for the future in the annual Apocalypse Debate, sponsored by Logos, the undergraduate philosophy journal and club.
The federal research funding supporting projects across the university, including the development of a pediatric heart pump, has been restarted, but those lost months of work will have a lasting impact.
To equip astronauts with health choices for future missions, a Cornell postdoctoral fellow is leading research with AstroCup, a group that recently tested two menstrual cups in spaceflight as payload on an uncrewed rocket flight.
An international collaboration led by Cornell researchers used a combination of psilocybin and the rabies virus to map how – and where – the psychedelic compound rewires the connections in the brain.
Chemotherapy activates a stress sensor in immune cells, which may help explain why many cancer patients experience debilitating pain as a side effect, according to Weill Cornell Medicine and Wake Forest University researchers.