News
Cornell’s Fisheries Club Investigates Spawning Season at Salmon Creek
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Participants discovered the wonders of aquatic ecosystems at a migration walk with the Cornell Fisheries Club.
News
New Data Science Minor Encodes Key Skills in Cornell Undergraduate Students
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Students from across the university can now minor in data science, allowing a greater subset of students to gain important quantitative and analytical skills in an increasingly data-driven world.
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Students Unite to Address Rising Challenges of Climate Change at Eighth Annual Global Health Case Competition
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23 teams of Cornell undergraduate and graduate students competed in the University’s Eighth annual Global Health Case Competition, hosted by the University’s Global Health Program and Global Health Student Advisory Board.
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Three McNair Scholars Earn Coveted National Science Foundation Grant
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Out of thousands of applicants, Cornell seniors Sophia Qu ’21, Atsu Kludze ’21 and Kelsi Lopez ’21 have earned the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a recognition of their tenacity as undergraduate researchers.
Dining
Comfort Foods for When You’re Terrified for the Future of Our Country and the Upcoming Election
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The phrase Presidential Debate has become synonymous with “petty shouting match.” Ballot deadlines were extended and then revoked. Some Americans still haven’t received their absentee ballots, while others report “faulty” ballots that don’t list any presidential candidates at all. Everywhere we turn, it seems that there is new election news to lament and almost no way of letting out this stress while locked at home. The week before one of the most important elections of our lifetimes, Americans have never needed comfort food more.
Logically, we all know that a bowl of chicken soup or mac and cheese can’t actually solve any of the turmoil our country is currently going through. A bag of crunchy, salty chips won’t do the trick either, yet we still turn to these familiar foods to support us emotionally when everything seems like it’s a bit too much to handle.
Columns
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: RE: ‘The Paradox of Fall Semester’
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To the Editor:
In his editorial entitled, ‘The Paradox of the Fall Semester’ Andrew V. Lorenzen presented a thoughtful analysis of the science involved in re-opening Cornell. In particular, he analyzed the assumptions, axioms, postulates, self-evident facts or whatever you want to call them, upon which the model and the analysis were based. This is so rarely done in the use, misuse and abuse of science today. I applaud Mr. Lorenzen for presenting science as it should be presented. In a speech entitled, What is Science?, Richard Feynman said: “As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
Cornell
WATCH | Sciencenter Brings Student Workers Into the Ithaca Community
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Peter Terrazas ’23 and Lizette Conde ’23 talk about their experiences working at Sciencenter, a local hands-on science museum, as part of their off-campus federal work-study jobs.
Science
Encouraging Innovation and Imagination at Cornell’s Science Olympiad Invitational
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“Biology is really fun to me,” said Jasmine, a Brooklyn Amity School middle school student. “You can’t help but feel interested, and feel blessed, even. It really excites me, thinking about how unique everything on our planet is. Everything has a life. It’s really beautiful.”
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Gift-Giving on Valentine’s Day – Will You Break A Heart or Break The Bank?
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To gift or not to gift, that is the question. Even though Valentine’s Day is all about love, no one can deny that gifts can make or break the holiday.
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The Science of Human Bonding
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Whether you decide to actually meet your Perfect Match, go out with your significant other or stay in for a night of Netflix with friends, Valentine’s Day can be an opportunity to appreciate the bonds and love we have for each other as humans. But the bonds we’ve formed over the course of our lives don’t just start with us — human bonding is as old as humanity itself.