“Our goals for the future will be to keep learning and making friends through Science Olympiad, and if we will medal, it will be the icing on the cake,” said Queen Lee, coach of the Kennedy Middle School team.
APO
Joint Medlife and APO Panel Facilitates Discussion of Opioid Overdose
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“[What] mattered to all of us was bringing more awareness to students about what is happening right here in Ithaca,” Winnie Ho ’19, a member of APO, explained as she introduced the panelists with Delmar Fears ’19, Engaged Ambassador, and Matthew Guo ’20, president of Medife. “We are aware of what’s going on in our own lives but we fail to see what is happening around us.”
art exhibit
Mann Exhibit ‘Unturned Leaves’ Showcases the Work of Early Female Scientists
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Women have contributed much to the advancement of scientific knowledge, yet their contributions have been poorly documented, often overlooked, and greatly under-celebrated.
Science
How to Prepare for Finals Season: The Science of Memory, Stress and Cognition
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There is also one extremely important thing that significantly affects how memory works: sleep. Lack of sleep degrades all aspects of memory performance.
cancer
Cornell Research Finds Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Come with a Price
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“This is an important study that actually shows a direct mechanism of how sugar impacts tumor growth… patients with colon cancer should actively be avoiding high-fructose corn syrup,” Goncalves said.
cornell dairy bar
Churrosity, New Student-Created Ice Cream Flavor, to be Launched on Slope Day
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Making ice cream is a precise process. It requires students to not only know the ins and outs of making ice cream but also and the science behind the entire process.
earth day
Earth Day 2019: Cornellians Advocate for Sustainability as Federal Carbon Bill Rallies its Way Through Capitol Hill
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The EICDA addresses carbon pricing, a sustainability measure that the IPCC deemed necessary to reduce carbon emissions in a recent report. This is expected to create 2.1 million jobs and higher quality air. The bill also features a component to promote domestic growth.
cancer
Cancer Biology, Machine Learning, and Creative Problem Solving at Cornell’s Microbiome Hackathon
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Very few of the students were experts in both microbiome biology and data science — many came from one specialty and learned through their teammates and the event mentors about the others.
Featured in Category
Resisting Drug Resistant Pathogens: The Fight Against Candida Auris
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As of February 28, 2019, the Center for Disease Control confirmed 587 cases of C. auris in the United States, over 300 of which are in New York State. Between 30 percent and 60 percent of people with C. auris have died, although other conditions may have played a role in these deaths.
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Cornell Astronomers Identify Thousands of Stars that Could Support Other ‘Earths’
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By using powerful space telescopes, they have already made — and continue to make — progress in spotting and learning more about such exoplanets. These researchers are specifically focusing on studying rocky planets that orbit relatively closer stars to Earth.
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Sounds of Spring: The Science Behind Birdsong
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“By putting development into social context, we’re gaining a better understanding of the biological and social mechanisms that drive developmental change in communication systems, and because we’re doing it in multiple species, that gives us insight into how development itself has evolved — both the evolution of communication as well as the development of communication,” Goldstein said.