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Harrison Award winner Dana Lerner ’14 playing ice hockey at Madison Square Garden in March 2023 (“A helmet was worn and is out of the frame,” she notes.)
With Professor Strogatz helping to lead the charge, the Math 101 initiative will attempt to decrease disparities, democratize the subject and better prepare young people to solve math problems.
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Jessica Chen Weiss serves as a panelist at the 2023 Aspen Ideas Festival.
As part of the Cornell University 2023 Stewardship Report, this story highlights how donor philanthropy is supporting faculty and their pursuit of new knowledge and solutions that do the greatest good for people and communities all around the world.
Professlor Martha Haynes organizes monthly Zoom events led by Cornell faculty, research staff, and student experts on a variety of astronomy topics.
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Michael at a recent symposium on addiction disorders with Eliza Foltz, Pretaa’s chief revenue officer, who is currently in her third year of recovery.
Pretaa, inspired by the Latin meaning ‘to be ready,’ draws upon Madon's Cornell English degree, his Wharton MBA, his military training and his technical expertise.
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Cornell Undergraduate Veterans Association students pose for a group photo at the university’s new Veteran Program House before Slope Day 2022
Having returned to complete her degree in literatures in English, reporter Keri Blakinger ’11, BA ’14, now covers the prison system for the Marshall Project.
Nonny de la Peña, one of pioneers of Extended Reality, or XR, and the founder of Emblematic Group, shared her story in a focus talk co-sponsored by the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity on April 8.
As part of its ongoing effort to encourage bipartisan dialogue and problem solving, the Cornell Institute for Politics and Global Affairs (IOPGA) and Government Department co-hosted a conversation with former Governor John Kasich and former Representative Susan Molinari (R-NY). The talk was moderated by Steve Israel, IOPGA director and former U.S. Representative (D-NY), and by Doug Kriner, IOPGA faculty director and Clinton Rossiter Professor in American Institutions at Cornell.
<p> Juliana Bain ’20, Noe Abernathy ’20, and Devki Trivedi ’20 met during their first year at Cornell. Bain and Trivedi lived in the same dorm (floor 5 of High Rise 5), and Bain and Abernathy shared a house together for most of the next three years. Today, the trio are part of the core team behind <a href="https://voteology.org/">Voteology</a>, a startup focused on motivating college students to vote.</p>
John Rawlins III '06, president of the Cornell Black Alumni Association, urged listeners to give the black community space to “share how we feel and to express what we want.”
<p>How long will it take to develop a vaccine for COVID-19? And how quickly can it be scaled up to inoculate everyone?</p><p>With lives and livelihoods on pause, Cornell’s <a href="https://iopga.cornell.edu/">Institute of Politics and Global Affairs</a> hosted a TeleTown Hall April 8 to explore these questions.</p>
On October 3-4, 2019, Cornell CIS (Computing and Information Science) celebrated its 20th anniversary. To mark the event, CIS hosted a symposium showcasing the game-changing impact of computing on a breadth of disciplines.
<p>Just two weeks after classes end and students disperse for the summer, alumni and their families will return to campus for Reunion 2019. This year’s event – from Thursday, June 6, through Sunday, June 9 – is on track to set a new record for attendance, with more than 7,000 alumni and their guests registered.</p>
<p>This year’s Cornell Model United Nations Conference brought more than 800 high school students to campus in April. The conference, which is organized annually by the Cornell International Affairs Society, included high school delegates who hailed from across the United States and from around the world.</p>
<p><em>Dawn Berry is a visiting scholar in the Department of History at Cornell, and former postdoctoral fellow in foreign policy, security studies, and diplomatic history at the <a href="http://einaudi.cornell.edu/">Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies</a>.</em></p><p><strong>How did you become interested in foreign policy relating to the Arctic and Antarctic, and why are these regions important?</strong></p>
