The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/milenabimpong/)
Six Cornell professors receive the Simons Fellowship, allowing them to take a one year sabbatical to focus on research in mathematics and theoretical physics.
Ben Furnas ’06 discusses collaborative effort with Cornell to accelerate the ways in which the University can be mobilized to support climate action.
As Valentine’s Day approaches, everyone’s sure to be looking for love. Two psychology professors break down the secrets to strong relationships.
In the past year and a half, many students have changed their behavior around travel, events and other activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic — with a previous academic year that included COVID-19 testing, indoor masking and Zoom fatigue.
The Sun spoke to Prof. Laura Niemi, psychology, about the moral dilemmas that young people, particularly college students, face while making public health decisions during the pandemic.
Although 54.7 percent of the total U.S. population is fully vaccinated for COVID-19 as of Sept. 20, the threat of the highly contagious Delta variant and waning antibodies after vaccination makes vaccine boosters a next step in curbing COVID-19 infections for some.
Cornell researchers are collaborating with the Toyota Research Institute to employ materials science and artificial intelligence in search of eco-friendly batteries that can be produced in the lab.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the american bald eagle population has quadrupled in the last 12 years —- eBird, a Cornell Lab of Ornithology app and database, played a significant role in chronicling this resurgence. Nonetheless, the bald eagle population remains under close monitoring by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Currently, inequities surrounding access to resources are mainly the result of unequal distribution rather than global scarcity. While that may change as the population grows, these issues of distribution are already contributing to a climate refugee crisis, environmental degradation and food scarcity in some regions of the world.
While students are challenged with a warped virtual learning environment Prof. Daniel Casasanto, human development and psychology, suggests tapping into their “memory palaces” –– a technique thousands of years old, to better retain information.
Why is pumpkin spice so popular? Prof. Gavin Sacks, food science, whose research focuses on flavor chemistry, said nostalgia is the main psychological reason for why certain fall drinks — such as pumpkin spice lattes and apple cider — become very common during this time of year.