Ranjit Singh, Ph.D. ’20, and Steven Jackson, associate professor of information science in Cornell Bowers CIS, examined how India’s biometrics-based identification system, Aadhaar, works for the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people.
A talk by Brig. Gen. Joseph Biehler, “The Role of the Military in Supporting State Crises,” will highlight campus events in observance of Veterans Day, on Nov. 11.
Three in 10 parents say they will “definitely not” get their 5- to 11-year-old vaccinated against COVID-19, according to new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Cornell research shows how to make offshore wind farms more efficient in the face of impending rapid expansion, as the U.S. Department of the Interior plans leasing federal waters.
A.D. White Professor-at-Large Wynton Marsalis will visit campus the week of Nov. 1, offering a concert with the Barbara and Richard T. Silver ’50, M.D. ’53 Cornell Wind Symphony and a talk open to members of the Cornell community.
Cornell researchers in natural language processing have found that the word lists packaged and shared amongst researchers to measure for bias in online texts oftentimes carry words, or “seeds,” with baked-in biases and stereotypes, which could skew findings.
Jacob Mays, an assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, comments on a global energy crisis making gas prices soar in Europe.
The grant will fund an effort to study how abnormal protein aggregates may spread from the gut to the brain to drive the early stages of Parkinson’s disease.
Four climate-controlled respiration chambers will be built in the Large Animal Research and Teaching Unit to study gas exchange of dairy cattle and other livestock with the goal of reducing emissions.
Political cartoonist Pedro X. Molina fled his country in 2018 as the government came down hard on critics, killing more than 300 people and imprisoning hundreds more, including many journalists. Molina is now an Artist Protection Fund fellow in residence and visiting critic at Cornell.
