Atkinson Hall officially opened its doors with a ribbon-cutting ceremony April 9, realizing its benefactors’ vision of the facility as a home for impact-driven research across grand challenges in sustainability, cancer biology and immunology, nutrition, global health and computational biology.
The third cohort of Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows from Cornell will tackle critical scientific challenges in sustainability, the physical sciences and more.
Philanthropic organization Schmidt Sciences has named Carla P. Gomes of Cornell Bowers CIS an AI2050 Senior Fellow for her work on innovative AI approaches to advance scientific discovery, focusing on significant sustainability challenges.
While supporting research through its nine farms and 127,000 square feet of greenhouses, Cornell AES facilities are also used as a unique teaching environment for two dozen Cornell undergraduate courses.
Celebrate the season and give back with an apple bake-off this weekend, and enjoy symphony concerts and learn about New York’s Mohawk River through an exhibit at Mann Library.
Cornell University researchers are studying extreme heat from a range of disciplines, writing policy memos on challenges like addressing extreme heat in schools — and are actively engaged in improving response plans.