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In this VOA article, Cornell University's Mark Sarvary and Frank Castelli did a study on why students don't keep their video camera on during class. "Their study results — “Why students do not turn on their video cameras during online classes and an equitable and inclusive plan to encourage them to do so,” published in Ecology and Evolution in...
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The incoming cohort of fellows will explore subjects ranging from the evolution of primate lifespans to urban public art in China to the effects of uncertainty and debt on financial decision-making.
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When the semester shifted online amid the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, instructor Mark Sarvary, Ph.D. ’06, and his teaching staff decided to encourage – but not require – students to switch on their cameras.It didn’t turn out as they’d hoped.“Most of our students had their cameras off,” said Sarvary, director of the Investigative Biology...
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On Dec. 19, nearly 1,500 Cornell students celebrated their winter graduation in a virtual recognition ceremony viewed around the world – the first such event at Cornell, and a fitting end to what President Martha E. Pollack called “a semester like no other at Cornell.”
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Our own NBB Doctoral Candidate, Ajinkya Dahake is interning at Big Biology. Big Biology is a podcast channel about scientists discussing unanswered biology questions.
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In this National Geographic Article, Thomas Seeley, author of Honeybee Democracy was quoted regarding how the queen bee candidates fight to win to become queen. However, the queen’s function isn’t really that of a leader. “Her function is to be an egg layer “Other than being a skilled fighter, that’s all she does.”To read the full article by...
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"These spiders have finely tuned sensory systems and a fascinating hunting strategy."
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The latest achievement by a Cornellian-led startup dedicated to protecting honeybees – a $500,000 runner-up prize at the fifth annual 76West Clean Energy Competition – is creating quite the buzz in New York’s Southern Tier.Combplex, founded by doctoral students Hailey Scofield and Nathan Oakes, former research fellows with the Cornell Atkinson...
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Scientists have detected signs of a frog listed extinct and not seen since 1968, using an innovative technique to locate declining and missing species in two regions of Brazil.
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The College is able to bestow these honors to outstanding faculty thanks to generous gifts from alumni, parents and friends.
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