Cornell Chronicle
Steve Grodsky, assistant professor of natural resources, and a multidisciplinary team of researchers, soon will learn how solar panels placed on top of water bodies can affect the biology of aquatic systems.
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A cohort of 25 Mandela Washington Fellows spent the summer on campus developing their leadership and expertise - in a program they said will have enduring impact on their lives and work.
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Thomas Feng, a doctoral student in performance practice, is identifying and cataloging the piano music of the late Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, a composer with a cult following.
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A group of Cornell geologists – known as the Cornell Andes Project – came together in early June to celebrate 40 years of research in South America and their collective success in advancing the understanding of plate tectonics.
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Pianist-composer Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru was born in 1923 in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. Now, graduate music student Thomas Feng is collaborating with the Emahoy Music Foundation to further identify and catalog Emahoy’s written and recorded music.
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Students and faculty at Cornell continue to build on the legacy and connections of the Cornell Andes Project—a 40+ year collaboration between geologists.
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Nate Foster, CIS and faculty lead for Global Hub partner University of Edinburgh, will receive the 2023 Robin Milner Young Researcher Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of programming languages.
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President Martha E. Pollack issued a statement, committing to Cornell’s “core values,” following the Supreme Court’s decision on June 29 to strike down admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.
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After graduating from Cornell, Hu Shih led a literary movement that helped transform China. A new seating area at Beebe Lake commemorates Shih.