Cornell Chronicle
The 18 students in the College of Engineering's Kessler Fellows program recently completed funded summer internships at a startup of their choice. Four interns went into depth about their experiences.
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Plant pathogens can hitch rides on dust and remain viable, with the potential for traveling across the planet to infect areas far afield, a finding with important implications for global food security and for predicting future outbreaks.
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The hackathons, run by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, are open to undergraduate and graduate students from any field and major and take place from Friday evenings through Sunday afternoon.
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N.K. Jemisin, award-winning fantasy author and critic, spoke at the Bartels World Affairs Lecture about building worlds, which is a perfect kick off to Cornell's new Global Grand Challenge: The Future.
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A Cornell-led project team—with Global Hubs partners in India, the UK, Ghana, and Singapore—has received a two-year $250,000 design grant from the National Science Foundation to bring more comfortable days and nights to homes everywhere.
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An event featuring threatened artists from Nicaragua and Afghanistan kicks off Global Cornell’s contribution to this year’s campuswide theme, "The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell."
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This year’s Bartels lecture kicks off Cornell’s new Global Grand Challenge: The Future. The multiyear challenge asks Cornell’s world-class thinkers to envision creative strategies and solutions for a future that is equitable, sustainable, and good.
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Five Cornell PhD students have received Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad awards, with support from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
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As the world seeks to avoid climate extremes, employing state-of-the art agricultural technology could result in more than 13 billion tons of net negative greenhouse gas emissions annually.