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Mentoring program participants participate in a scavenger hunt around campus.
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‘Like Having an Older Sibling’: Graduate Students Benefit from Peer Mentoring

In graduate school, peer mentoring is a two-way street that benefits everyone. Advanced students can share what they’ve learned through experience by mentoring early-career students. As mentees, early-career students can avoid common pitfalls and get ahead with the benefit of a more student who has been there, done that.

Read more about the MAC Mentoring Program.

More Graduate School News

• Donor-funded Scholarship Making a Difference for Ph.D. Students
• Ten Inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
• Doctoral Alumna Selected for SUNY Chancellor Dissertation Award

A student takes a shot at Bartels Hall.
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A physics theory that’s proven useful to predict the crowd behavior of molecules and fruit flies also seems to work in a very different context – a basketball court. A model based on density functional theory can suggest the best positioning for each player on the basketball court in a given scenario if they want to raise their probability of either scoring or defending successfully. Boris Barron, a doctoral student in physics, recently presented this work.

Read more about physics theory and basketball.

More Research with Impact

• Website Sheds Light on 19th Century Black Literary Culture
  • Charline Jao, English language and literature doctoral candidate
• Meaningful but Unused Products Hinder Sustainability
  • Michael Kowalski, design and environmental analysis doctoral student
• Doctoral Student Co-authors Global Plastics Declaration
  • Bethany Jorgensen, natural resources and the environment doctoral candidate

Students built a trolley to shuttle sections of the bridge across the creek in 1983.
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In 1983, after a storm washed out an unstable pedestrian bridge over Ithaca’s Fall Creek, the Cornell student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) rebuilt it. Forty years later, in 2023, the current student chapter of ASCE is renovating the bridge for the next 40 years or more.

Read more about the Flat Rock Bridge.

More Cornell and Ithaca News

• Cornell Repatriates Ancestral Remains to Oneida Indian Nation
• The Search for ‘Spoon’
• Dead & Co. to Play Benefit at Barton Hall, Honoring Legendary ’77 Show

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Free Cornell-themed Games and Puzzles

Play Cornell-themed games and complete Cornell-themed puzzles on the Alumni website. Enjoy trivia, ‘Cornerdle,’ sliding puzzles, crosswords, and more!

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White guests favor Airbnb properties with white hosts, but are more inclined to rent from Black or Asian hosts if they see featured reviews from previous white guests, new research co-authored by Cornell scholars, including Chao Yu, M.S. ’17, Ph.D. ’21, and Minsu Park, M.S. ’18, Ph.D. ’19, finds.

Read more about the Airbnb research.

More Alumni in the News

Astronomers Discover Metal-rich Galaxy in Early Universe
Cornell Chronicle, 2/27/23
Graduate Students: Bo Peng, Catie Ball, and Christopher Rooney
Alumni: Amit Vishwas, Ph.D. ’19; Gordon Stacey, Ph.D. ’85; Carl Ferkinhoff, Ph.D. ’14; and Cody Lamarche, Ph.D. ‘19

A Bold Plan to Revive the Eel, as British as Shakespeare and Tea
The Times, 2/24/23
Alumni: John Wyatt Greenlee, Ph.D. ‘20

When Recreational Cannabis is Legal, Codeine Demand Drops
Cornell Chronicle, 1/19/23
Graduate Student: Shyam Raman
Alumni: Johanna Catherine Maclean, Ph.D. ‘13

Product Images Could Boost Food Pantry Use
Cornell Chronicle, 1/18/23
Alumni: Anne Byrne, Ph.D. ‘21

Cornell to Lead New Semiconductor Research Center
Cornell Chronicle, 1/4/23
Alumni: James Hwang, M.S. ’76, Ph.D. ’78; Dan Ralph, Ph.D. ’93; and Judy Cha, Ph.D. ‘09

Freedom on the Move Project Inspires Music Performances
Cornell Chronicle, 12/15/22
Alumni: Tsitsi Ella Jaji, M.A. ’06, Ph.D. ‘08

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