BOOM
BOOM Showcase Highlights Student Tech Projects
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Various sponsors attended the BOOM Showcase to scout for talent, offering cash prizes to teams they found particularly innovative.
Electronics
Cornell Researchers Create Tech Designed to Disappear into Thin Air
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When the polymer is vaporized, the etchants within react to dissolve the silicon dioxide-based electronics, allowing the whole system to vanish.
Racial Inequality
Veganism a Way to Combat Race-Based Violence, Says Columbia Lecturer
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Speaking to a large crowd on Thursday, Christopher-Sebastian emphasized how the dehumanization of nonwhite persons has become a justification for their discrimination.
Chuck Schumer
Schumer Gives $400,000 of Federal Funds to Cornell Lab
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The grant, awarded in person by Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), is meant to enable the Nematode Quarantine Lab to upgrade equipment and give researchers the tools they need to study nematodes and combat nematode epidemics.
climate change seminar
Rise of Christendom ‘Enhanced’ Science, Professor Says
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The idea that scientific thought is “threatening” to Christian tradition — or that there is an “inexorable” rift between science and religion — is a more recent and “uniquely American” phenomena.”
Entrepreneurship@Dyson
Cornell’s Female Entrepreneurs Give ‘Storyslam’ on Pioneering Startups
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The speakers spoke passionately about their projects, and each was eager to discuss what pushed them to form their organization and the progress made so far.
immigration
Ithacans, Cornellians Slam ICE After Local Farm Worker is Detained
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He has a work permit, a social security card and four children, all U.S. citizens. Nearly a month ago, ICE detained him following an incident of workplace violence in which he allegedly was the victim.
News
Round Table Highlights Tensions Between Trump, Russia, Baltics and Ukraine
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Speaking about the non-committal border territories between Russia and Ukraine, Prof. Kateryna Pishchikova called the territory disputes “hybrid and fluid and messy kind of arrangement.”
immigration
Polish Sociologist Explains Rise of Anti-Refugee Attitudes in Poland, Asserts Vital Role of Right-Wing Media
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Ƚukasz Pawłowski, a prominent Polish sociologist and journalist, discussed similarities between the re-emergence of right wing nationalism in Poland and USA, highlighting the roles played by the media in both countries.