A new course on global textile and apparel sustainability attracts students from across the university and immerses students in the real-life, contemporary challenges of sustainability in the fashion industry. The course was structured to address the connection of fashion to the 17 sustainability goals outlined by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
A patient living with HIV who received a blood stem cell transplant for high-risk acute myeloid leukemia has been free of the virus for 14 months after stopping HIV antiretroviral drug treatment, suggesting a cure, according to the Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian physician-scientists who performed the transplant and managed her care.
Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a $9.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a consortium of health care institutions that are analyzing nationwide health data in an effort to unravel the complexities of long COVID.
A recent gift from Cornell’s Chi Chapter of Delta Gamma will create an annual speaker series for the Cornell Women’s Resource Center, and provide funding for the series in perpetuity.
A newly launched book club will explore resources and dialogue in small campus discussion groups to explore issues like climate change, environmental injustice, consumerism, and sustainability.
Biologist Alex Flecker and computer scientist Carla Gomes co-led a project that employed AI and around 40 researchers in an attempt to determine optimal placement of around 350 hydropower dams in the Amazon river basin.
For the past year, Cornell doctoral students Megan Barrington and Christian Tate have been living, thinking and working on the red planet Mars, digitally commuting from our own blue world.
Rebecca Kehoe, says mass firings can lead to resentment by remaining employees who feel as though they are penalized by having to take on a heavier workload to accommodate for the reduced workforce.
