Quantum mechanics with a twist: spring 2025 Bethe lecture

Physicist Shahal Ilani will introduce the emerging field of twistronics, which is revolutionizing our ability to harness quantum phenomena, during a public lecture April 9. 

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Cook-Gray Lecture will examine transformative labor moment

The 2025 Alice Cook-Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture, “Poverty Wages, 'We're Not Lovin' It': Gender, Race and Inequality Rising in the 21st Century,” begins at 4:30 p.m. April 15 in the ILR Conference Center, 423 King-Shaw Hall, 140 Garden Avenue. 

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Study to explore nerve-like behavior of bone cells with NSF grant

Cornell biomedical engineers will use the grant to investigate how osteocytes – specialized cells that respond to and regulate forces within bones – interact with and are impacted by the part of the nervous system that controls rest related involuntary functions such as digestion and heart rate.

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Jiang Fellows welcomes inaugural cohort

The Jiang Fellows Program recently welcomed 20 students to its 2025 cohort. The students will spend their spring semesters sharpening their entrepreneurial skills while preparing for a fully funded summer internship at a startup of their choice. 

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PMA brings musical to Edinburgh Fringe Festival

“The Family Copoli," a “post-apocalyptic burlesque and re-population play,” is the brainchild of playwright Andy Colpitts ’26, a doctoral candidate in PMA, and composer Michael Wookey and the production involves more than a dozen Cornell alumni and students.

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Jill Tarter '65 keynotes celebration of women engineers at Cornell

Renowned astronomer and engineer Jill Tarter '65 delivered the keynote address at a two-day symposium celebrating 140 years of women in engineering at Cornell, which also featured panel discussions and remarks from women leaders.

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Three FFAR students visit Congress

Three doctoral students supported by the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) Fellowship Program visited Washington, D.C. to advocate for agricultural science and learn about policymaking.

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BBS Ph.D. candidate wins 2025 3MT competition

Sydney Womack won Cornell’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. 3MT challenges graduate students to present their thesis research compellingly to general audiences in just three minutes.

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Share and hear poetry in many languages at this April 9 event

The Language Resource Center event celebrates April as National Poetry Month. 

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