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Cornell’s CHESS Lab Receives $20 Million Grant For XLEAP, New High-Intensity X-ray
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Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source received a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to construct a new micro-focusing X-ray facility.
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Jicamarca Radio Observatory Receives Out-of-This World $12 Million Grant
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Jicamarca Radio Observatory, a scientific facility for studying the equatorial ionosphere located in Lima, Peru, recently received over $12 million in grants to help expand. Dating back to the 1960s, the facility is run by the Geophysics Institute of Peru and aided by Cornell and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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Cornell Awarded $15 Million to Lead a Northeast Region NSF I-Corps Hub, After Initial Rejection
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The National Science Foundation has granted Cornell $15 million over five years to oversee the establishment of the Innovation Corps Hub, a group that will support science and technology entrepreneurship in rural and economically underserved regions.
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Cornell Startup Antithesis Foods Receives One Million Dollar National Science Foundation Grant
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Cornell graduate students win a National Science Foundation grant that funds their start up Antithesis Foods, a snack company.
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Cornell Research Project and Start-Up Receives Millions in Funding from Federal Grants
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University researchers have been selected to receive millions in federal grants for their innovations in clean energy technologies.
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National Science Foundation Grant to Fund Innovation in Sustainable Milk Production
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With the start of a new year, the McFadden Lab of the Department of Animal Science at Cornell University received a National Science Foundation grant to fund an innovative new project to increase efficiency and sustainability on milk production.
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Cornell One of Seven Institutions Awarded NIH Grant to Strengthen Faculty Diversity
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After a competitive application process, Cornell is one of seven institutions awarded $16 million as part of the inaugural Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation Grant by the National Institutes of Health. Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Prof. Avery August, microbiology and immunology, received the grant to hire and support faculty who diversify biomedical and health researchers at Cornell.
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Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy Receives $1.5 Million Grant from Koch Foundation
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The Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy — a seven-year-old program that tackles the ins and outs of infrastructure — just got a big boost with a $1.5 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. This program focuses on “improving the delivery, maintenance, and operation of physical infrastructure,” according to its website. Based in the College of Human Ecology, the program funds research about infrastructure, hosts events to discuss important issues in the field and maintains an advisory board of experts in both public and private industries to help carry out the goals of the organization. According to Prof. Rick Geddes, policy analysis and management, the founding director of CPIP, these goals are to “further research, teaching, public engagement, and outreach in the area of infrastructure policy.”
One of the goals of the program will be “to research technology and infrastructure,” specifically the adoption and implementation of these programs in cities and counties, according to Geddes. Geddes pointed out the immense technological advancements that infrastructure is currently undergoing.
Facebook Awards Cornell Professor $1.77 Million to Study Malicious Intent on Social Media
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Facebook announced this summer they would invest $7.5 million in new research partnerships with academics from three universities: Cornell University, University of California at Berkeley and University of Maryland.
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Visioning Grants Will Fund Research in Humanities, Science, Music in New York City
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Four proposals were selected from a pool of 30 applications. A committee surveyed Cornell students and faculty from both campuses in order to make their final decisions on the recipients of $250,000 in grant money.