Alumni-fueled startups pitch clean-energy solutions

New York’s Southern Tier is getting a jolt of clean-energy innovation, fueled by  Cornell alumni.

Applications open for Klarman fellowships

The three-year fellowships are available to early-career scholars conducting leading-edge research in any of the College’s discipline areas.

NBB’s 2021 Spring graduate students who have defended their PhD

Congratulations and best of luck to our 2021 Spring graduate students who have defended their PhD! Akash Guru on March 31, 2021 – Hosted by: Melissa WardenYi-Yun Ho on April 7, 2021 – Hosted by: Melissa WardenOnwards and upwards!!

Students provide tutoring for Weill Cornell Medicine employee kids

Seventy Cornell students and recent graduates are volunteering this summer to tutor the children of Weill Cornell Medicine employees in subjects ranging from writing to physics.

Three Ithaca companies among finalists in clean energy competition

Hailey Scofield, Neurobiology and Behavior graduate student is a founding member of Combplex. The Ithaca Voice article mentions three Ithaca firms will be competing for a $1 million grant to support clean energy commercialization in New York State. Combplex is one the competing firms. To read the full article. Photo by Jason Koski

Scientists Taught Mice to Smell an Odor That Doesn’t Exist

In this article from Wired on studying olfactory senses,  Professor Christiane Linster was quoted regarding this study, “shows things that everybody was thinking but nobody had ever been able to experimentally prove.  It really advances the field by consolidating that the way we think is right.”  To read the entire article by WIRED. 

Awaiting University Decision, Professors Prepare for Socially-Distanced Lab Classes

In this article from The Cornell Daily Sun, Professor Mark Sarvary, Neurobiology and Behavior is making contingency plans on how to support this fall's lab classes if they need to be online.“Our goal is to teach the scientific process, experimental design, coming up with a hypothesis, setting up an experiment, analyzing the data, learning...

Student Spotlight: Callum Kingwell

Callum Kingwell is a doctoral student in neurobiology and behavior from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. After earning a bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia, he chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to the research groups and program flexibility.What is your area of research and why is it important?I study bees...

Students reflect on engaged experiences, leadership

Twenty students recently completed a leadership program that gave them a chance to reflect and build on their community-engaged learning experiences.

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