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Accepted Class of 2025 impresses during ‘a year like no other’ April 7, 2021 Cornell’s admitted class of 2025 – a class that applied to college during an unprecedented year interrupted by pandemic-related closures and quarantines – is an impressive one and its composition has set new levels of diversity for the university. “This has been a year like no other,” said Shawn Felton, executive director of undergraduate admissions for Cornell. “The lives of our applicants – and their experiences as high-school students – have changed. As a result, the way we reviewed applicati...

March 10, 2021 The W.E. Cornell program, which aims to improve gender representation in entrepreneurship, is launching its spring cohort as industries reckon with the inequities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. “In our third year, we have trained over 100 STEM women to expose them to entrepreneurship to build the next generation of transformations that can impact society,” said program director and Cornell Engineering lecturer, Andrea Ippolito ’06, M.Eng. ’07. “Women represent 50% of society and we need to do a better job of engaging half of our population to fuel and propel the ec...

March 9, 2021 An app that would maximize profit and minimize food spoilage and loss across the agriculture supply chain was named the grand prize winner in the third annual Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) Hackathon. The event, held virtually March 5-7, brought together 176 students from 32 teams representing five of the world’s top agriculture schools for a 36-hour hackathon. A mix of undergraduate and graduate students in fields ranging from agriculture and animal science to computer science, engineering and business formed teams and applied technology to agricultural chal...

March 9, 2021 The College of Engineering’s Kessler Fellows program welcomed 20 new student entrepreneurs to its latest cohort, where they will explore entrepreneurship through academic coursework, mentorship with entrepreneurs in residence and a summer internship with a successful startup of their choice. This year, the program expanded to include Cornell juniors from all disciplines interested in entrepreneurship – it was previously limited to STEM students – bringing a myriad of academic perspectives to the 2021 Kessler Fellows cohort. “I want to challenge myself to think outside of...

Updated Feb 19, 2021 | 14:31 IST She was calm, composed and in complete control as she spelt out every phase of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover landing on the Red planet. Meet Dr Swati Mohan - born in India - now a NASA achiever. Dr Swati Mohan of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who was Guidance, Navigation and Controls (GN&C) Operations for Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover mission.   |  Photo Credit: Twitter Key Highlights Indian academic talent is celebrated across the world. Indian-origin scientists grace responsible positions in space organisations acro...