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Cornell Tech alumni create New York City law firm to transform law with tech

6 days ago | news.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

Three alumni from Cornell Tech’s Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship program have joined forces at ALVK Law, a law firm that provides on-demand legal services for tech entrepreneurs and enterprises without U.S.-based in-house counsel. Victoria Kammerath, LL.M. ‘21, founded ALVK Law in March 2023, and was shortly thereafter joined by more recent graduates Agustín Iraola, LL.M. ‘23, and Valeria Monturiol, LL.M. ‘23, who Kammerath met during their studies at Cornell Tech.
Social networks are not effective at mobilizing vaccination uptake

1 week ago | news.cornell.edu | Laura Reiley

The persuasive power of social networks is immense, but not limitless, according to Cornell research published in Marchin the journal Health Economics. “Social Connections and COVID-19 Vaccination” showed that vaccine preferences, based on the COVID experience in the United States, proved quite insensitive to persuasion, even through friendship networks.
Robinson-Appel Award recipients create community-engaged solutions to social challenges

2 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | Olivia Hall

Three Cornell undergraduates are being recognized for their dedication to tackling social challenges through innovative, community-engaged learning projects. As recipients of this year’s Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards, Samhita Korukonda ’27, Michelle Tcherevatenko ’25 and Keishaun Wade ’25 will each receive $2,500 to support their initiatives.
Sunlight and seawater lead to low-cost green hydrogen, clean water

2 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | David Nutt

A Cornell-led collaboration has hit the trifecta of sustainability technology: The group developed a low-cost method to produce carbon-free “green” hydrogen via solar-powered electrolysis of seawater. A happy byproduct of the process? Potable water.
Snapshot shows Cornell’s impact on local economy

2 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | Laura Reiley

Retrn Bioworksis still small. But the Ithaca-based startup with the creatively spelled name, which aims totackle the global issue of plastic pollution with a new class of biodegradable coatings for food packaging, is growing quickly, hoping to secure its first $1 million round of venture capital funding by May. Retrn is a member of the JumpStart Program for New York State Small Businesses, enabling collaborations with Cornell researchers, and Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures incubator.
Cornell partners with industry to better assess drought risk

2 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | Krishna Ramanujan

The severity of wildfires that devastated Los Angeles in January were due to a perfect storm of months of dry weather combined with extreme Santa Ana winds. For companies that advise both insurers and the insured on the risks of drought and potential effects of water shortages on business operations, having knowledge of climate factors that lead to risks and losses is essential.
Tree rings track atmospheric mercury cheaply

2 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | Krishna Ramanujan

Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a study conducted in the Peruvian Amazon and published April 8 in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science. Computer models suggest that atmospheric mercury can potentially travel across the globe, to be deposited back in landscapes, though more study is needed to verify how far it spreads.
Levy Award winner leads team co-designing school playgrounds with Cornell and elementary students

2 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | Olivia Hall

What if children could design their own playgrounds? At Fall Creek Elementary School in Ithaca, this idea is coming to life through a community-engaged learning initiative led by Janet Loebach, the Evalyn Edwards Milman Professor in Child Development in the College of Human Ecology. The project unites students, designers and educators across generations to reimagine a play space that fosters creativity, inclusion and active play.
Study of democracy’s decline offers roadmap for fighting back

2 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | Laura Reiley

In the past two decades, a slide from democracy toward autocracy has been a consistent global theme. Countries in most regions of the world have witnessed a systematic dismantling of democratic institutions such as free and fair elections; the violation of individual rights; or the peaceful transfer of power.
Cornell Tech Professor Daniel D. Lee wins competition matching fruit fly brain maps

2 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

Daniel D. Lee, Tisch University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell Tech, has won the FlyWire Ventral Nerve Cord (VNC) Matching Challenge award for a competition that tasked researchers with creating a method to align the connectomes — aka neural connection maps — of male and female fruit flies, represented as large graphs. To find the best way to match the “nodes” (neurons) of the graphs, Lee’s team, named “Old School,” utilized matrix representations.