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The recent issue of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering features the research paper by Professor Fengqi You and his PhD student Xueyu Tian on sustainability of photovoltaics transition. The paper titled " Energy and Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Photovoltaics Transition toward Perovskite–Perovskite Tandems from the Attributional and Consequential Perspectives" is selected as the journal cover of the August 23, 2021 issue. Read more

Cornell’s seven-week Prefreshman Summer Program offers new students the opportunity to learn more about the university and its resources before they start their first year on East Hill. Read more

When Cornell’s COVID-19 Modeling Team began developing protocols for the return to campus, they turned to Cornell librarians to comprehensively answer a series of rapidly evolving – and critically important – questions. Read more

Models developed by university experts predict that the combination of a highly vaccinated campus population and public safety measures, including masks and testing, will minimize the risk of virus spread this fall. Read more

The degree to which the brain’s wiring aligns with its patterns of activity can vary with sex and age, and may be genetic, suggests a study published by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The study finds that this alignment may also have implications on cognition. The results published in Nature Communications help shed light on one of the biggest mysteries in biology—how the brain works, according to senior author Dr. Amy Kuceyeski, associate professor of mathematics in the Department of Radiology and in neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell... Read more

Sixteen student veterans participated in a virtual Cornell academic boot camp to help them transition into higher education. Read more

Goldman began the job in July and will serve a one-year term while on sabbatical from the Union of Concerned Scientists, where she is the research director for the Center for Science and Democracy. Read more

The fellowship is a merit-based, full-tuition award granted to students with potential for significant contributions to engineering. Read more

Cornell researchers and their collaborators will continue to advance quantum science and technology thanks to $5.4 million in new funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to support two projects. Read more

‘Blue hydrogen – made by using methane in natural gas – is lauded a clean, Cornell and Stanford researchers believe it may harm the climate more than burning fossil fuel. Read more