Tree Folio NYC creates a high-resolution “digital twin” of New York City’s urban canopy, simulating how local conditions influence shading that is important to mitigating climate change and heat island effects.
President Martha E. Pollack welcomes students to the 2023-24 academic year and introduces the first universitywide theme year, “The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell.”
The student-run Translator-Interpreter Program, which trains bilingual and multilingual Cornell students to serve as volunteer translators and interpreters for community agencies, received the 27th annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony.
Four Cornell-funded projects are expanding efforts to preserve and highlight the Gayogohó:nǫˀ (Cayuga Nation) language and culture, in western New York and throughout the country.
Victoria Bent MHA '23 is one of the organizers of the Women+ in Health Care Leadership Symposium. The event is sponsored by the Sloan Program in Health Administration in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and it will focus on personal development skills.
Cornell Tech researchers deployed “trashbots” in Brooklyn for two weeks in July. The goal of the experiment was to see how people interact with, and make sense of, service robots in public spaces. The cleaning was an added bonus.
The Cornell-sponsored Congressional Staff Peace Games brought high level House and Senate staff members together to game plan a nonviolent response to a simulated international crisis. Steve Israel, director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, directed the event.
Gen Meredith, professor of practice in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Public and Ecosystem Health and associate director of the Cornell Master of Public Health Program, has received the 2023 Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
Bolstering its commitment to broader engagement, the College of Arts and Sciences has established the Winokur Professorship in the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics with mathematician Steven Strogatz as the inaugural holder of the chair.
For her work in developing and teaching nutrition and food justice curricula to adolescents in New York City, Hannah Rudt ’23 has won the 2023 National Student Employee of the Year award – the first Cornellian to ever receive this honor.