Tag: cornell_university
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Texas Tech Faculty Protest Teaching Restrictions as Colleges Rework Admissions
NPR reports professors say rules on race, sex and gender have led to self-censorship, while some colleges waive fees and enlist faculty to recruit students.
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Cornell Chronicle reports nine Cornell alumni in next Congress, most in over 50 years
The 120th Congress, convening in January, will include eight Cornellians in the House and one in the Senate, alongside a $10 million award for an AI trust project.
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Media Monitor: Cornell Chronicle Highlights Carbon Sequestration, Pest Management Savings and Semiconductor Record
Cornell Chronicle reports on a podcast on carbon sequestration for farmers, a study finding New York's pest management program doubles taxpayer returns, and a record-setting semiconductor bandgap.
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Media Monitor: Cornell Chronicle highlights Veterans Week, cancer research and startup advice
The Cornell Chronicle reports on a Veterans Week celebration, a new strategy targeting a common cancer driver, tame fox brain research and Paul Graham's startup advice.
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Cornell Chronicle Reports Regenerative Building Materials Research, Parkinson's Ultrasound Treatment and Expanded AI Access
Weill Cornell has received an $8.2 million grant to test a novel male contraceptive pill, and a Cornell sophomore has grown a nonprofit she founded at 13 into an international network teaching incarcerated teenagers.
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Media Monitor: Cornell expands AI tool access, Weill Cornell wins $8.2M male contraceptive grant
The Cornell Chronicle reports Cornell is broadening access to multiple AI tools for faculty, staff and students, and that Weill Cornell received an $8.2 million grant to test a novel male contraceptive pill.
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Cornell Chronicle reports avian flu in Greenland polar bears, insulin cell research and graphene switch findings
Signs of infection were detected in polar bear blood samples obtained from Inuit subsistence hunters, the Chronicle reported.
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Media Monitor: Cornell Chronicle Highlights AI in Classrooms, Grow-NY Competition and Deer Disease Research
Cornell Chronicle reports instructors are balancing AI as a teaching tool with limits to preserve learning, plus a $3M Grow-NY food and agriculture contest and a deer-killing virus rare in New York.
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Media Monitor: Cornell Chronicle Highlights Light-Activated Painkiller, Workplace Narcissism Research
Cornell Chronicle reports on an experimental light-switchable morphine compound, research showing narcissists seek public recognition at work, and expert commentary on AI use by voters and vaping's effect on singers' voices.
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Media Monitor: NPR Reports on Cornell Lawsuit Fallout, Bend School Shooting and a Toddler Rave Tour
NPR reports on campus tensions at Cornell after a rape investigation lawsuit, a deadly school shooting in Bend, Oregon, a South Korean school's AI-era reading program and a toddler techno tour.
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Cornell Undergraduates Map PFAS Across More Than 300 Finger Lakes Waterways
The Chronicle also reports a $22.5 million NSF renewal for plant-human communication research, a Packard Fellowship for an applied physicist working on slidetronics, and a MacArthur Fellowship for a sociologist alumna studying climate change.
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Cornell Bans Fraternity Parties for the Academic Year After Lawsuit
President Michael I. Kotlikoff said the ban takes effect immediately and that New York State Police will be allowed to independently investigate sexual assault allegations on campus.
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Guilfoyle Resigns as U.S. Ambassador to Greece After White House Pressure
Trump said "I didn't like what I read" as reports alleged she asked a donor to pay her $100,000 American Express bill, allegations she denies.
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Media Monitor: Cornell students push for change on sexual assault handling; Trump polls signal midterm pressure
USA TODAY reports Cornell students are pressing administrators over sexual assault cases while questioning the movement's staying power, and says Trump's approval remains near second-term lows ahead of midterms.
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Media Monitor: Washington Post Reports Iranian Campaign Planted AI-Written Articles in U.S. News Outlets
The Washington Post reports an Iranian campaign planted roughly 100 AI-generated fake articles in at least 20 real U.S. news outlets, according to OpenAI, and also covers relationship conflict and a headmaster's challenge.
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FactCheck.org Stands by Reading of Trump's 'Take Out' Los Angeles and San Diego Remarks
The fact-checking site says the rally remarks were about preventing an Iranian nuclear threat, not inviting attacks on U.S. cities, as Democrats including Gov. Gavin Newsom called for Trump's removal.
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Media Monitor: Newsweek Examines Fraternity Assault Lawsuit and Cultural Questions on Consent
Newsweek reports a former Cornell student sued seven former Chi Phi fraternity members over an alleged 2024 sexual assault, prompting questions about consent, accountability and institutional responses.
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Media Monitor: Fauci Diaries Show He Wanted Trump Impeached, Newsweek Reports
Newsweek reports newly released Fauci diary entries show he wanted Trump impeached in 2019, plus a push to remove Letitia James as special prosecutor in a Cornell assault probe.
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Media Monitor: TIME Reports Meta's Muse AI Builds User Dossiers, Trump Denaturalization Push, Cornell Fraternity Lawsuit
TIME reports Meta's Muse AI agent compiles detailed dossiers on millions of users, the Justice Department seeks to denaturalize 40 citizens, and a Cornell fraternity lawsuit fuels calls for reform.
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Media Monitor: Cornell Chronicle Highlights Immunology Book, AI Safety Grants and Home Care Study
The Cornell Chronicle reports on a new immunology book by Dr. Gary Koretzky, grants for AI safety research, a study on private equity in New York home care, and more campus research news.
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Media Monitor: USA TODAY Briefing Covers Plague Concerns, Book Bans, Earhart Search and Diesel Order
USA TODAY's Daily Briefing reports a Russian lab worker's death raised plague concerns, a record year for school book bans, a new Amelia Earhart search and Trump's diesel order.
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Media Monitor: WSJ Opinion Roundup Touches Medicare, Cornell Case, Estonia Sabotage
The Wall Street Journal's editorial board says Medicare Part D premiums are lower than Democrats predicted, weighs in on New York's attorney general and the Cornell case, and flags Russian sabotage in Estonia.
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Media Monitor: Lead Stories Fact Checks FlyDubai Video, Cornell Defendant Photo and 'Viet Spam' Pope Story
Lead Stories rounds up its latest fact checks, debunking a FlyDubai plane video, a misidentified Cornell defendant photo and a fabricated Franklin Graham-Pope Leo XIV story, while confirming a real Trump accord typo.
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Media Monitor: NPR Reports Schools Forging Ahead on AI With Little Research or Federal Guidance
NPR reports schools are adopting AI tools for lesson plans, student tracking and chatbots with limited research, while a Cornell Title IX lawsuit and a Senate college sports bill also make news.
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Media Monitor: Newsweek Maps Congress on AI as White House Signs "Morally Binding" Superintelligence Accord
Newsweek reports on its AI Policy Scorecard tracking every member of Congress, a "morally binding" White House accord on superintelligence, a failed Tennessee execution, and a reopened Cornell assault case.
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Media Monitor: PolitiFact Rates Michigan Senate Attack Ad Mostly False, Debunks Cornell Videos and Ohio Transgender Surgery Claim
PolitiFact fact-checks three 2026 campaign and viral claims, including a Michigan Senate ad about Abdul El-Sayed's synagogue attack response, TikTok videos tied to a Cornell assault case, and an Ohio ad on Sherrod Brown.
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Media Monitor: NPR Reports on Cornell Assault Review, Tennessee Execution Pause and Jobs Data
NPR reports New York's governor named a special prosecutor in a Cornell sexual assault case, Tennessee paused executions after a failed lethal injection, and a key jobs report is due.
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Media Monitor: Newsweek Reports on Midterm Race Ratings, Cornell Rape Investigation and Failed Tennessee Execution
Newsweek reports on scrutiny of midterm race ratings, a special prosecutor named in a Cornell rape investigation, and questions over Tennessee's failed execution of Christa Pike.
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Media Monitor: Cornell Title IX Data, Data Center Backlash and a Retirement Wave
USA TODAY reports Cornell logged more than 1,200 sexual assault, dating violence and stalking cases from 2018 to 2024, with only seven ending in expulsion or dismissal.
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Media Monitor: NPR Reports Trump Administration Rolling Back Federal Fuel-Economy Standards
NPR reports the Trump administration is easing federal fuel-economy rules, New York prosecutors reopened a 2024 Cornell rape case, and five British men were bailed after detention near a U.S.-used base.
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