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Does sleep really 'wash' your brain?
The day before my qualifying exam, I opted for a couple hours of extra sleep rather than a couple hours of extra last-minute cramming. As a graduate student raised on sleep and memory studies, it would have been disingenuous to DISregard their results. Sleep promotes better memory and may protect against neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. But what exactly is good sleep? Is good sleep just about hitting eight hours every night?
Group of Cornell Undergraduates Design New Medical Mask for the Era of a Pandemic
One of the many shortages that has taken hold during the pandemic is one of personal protective equipment — items used to protect individuals from being exposed to a virus. A group of Cornell undergraduates is trying to stem that shortage with their new design for a mask, which is tailored for the COVID-19 outbreak.
COVID-19 in Perspective: Professor Panel Offers Students More Insight into Epidemic
Zoe Yang / Sun Contributor Prof. Colin Parrish, virology, speaking at the pannel. 2 mins ago Science By Catherine Cai | 2 mins ago Minutes after Cornell officially announced that classes would go virtual after spring break, professors dissected the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic while offering steps that students and travelers could take to prevent further infections.
New Undergraduate Cornell Clinic Researches Automated Scoring Systems
When typing a simple Google search on the Internet, a vast array of systems have the power to decide which links or topics occupy the coveted top results page. However, automated scoring systems may contain unconscious bias due to a variety of factors — system designers may bring their personal bias when designing algorithms or the data sets used for machine learning may already contain bias.
Cornell Research Group Explores Potential of Machine Learning in Medicine
YOSHI SODEOKA / The New York Times 1 min ago Science By Catherine Cai | 1 min ago Medicine and artificial intelligence are ever-evolving fields at the forefront of scientific discovery. A new Cornell research group — Machine Learning in Medicine — aims to coalesce the two, with the goal of improving methods for disease detection and diagnosis.
Student Spotlight on Sruti Vutukury ’21: Flight and Spaceflight
Most researchers’ experiments never leave their sight: From conception to application, materials and data are collected on the ground. But for the research candidates involved in NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative nanosatellite project, the goal is to have their work act thousands of miles away in space. In this ambitious and novel project, NASA is awarding launch opportunities to a small fraction of competing schools and organizations.
Food for Thought: Sopoong
New to Food For Thought? Here’s the rundown: For a modest-sized city of around 30,000, Ithaca has an impressive restaurant collection. And since Cornell is a significant portion of that population, it makes sense to review all the options within walking distance from campus. From Waffle Frolic to CTB to RPCC brunch, I am determined to sample all the goods our lovely campus and surrounding Collegetown + Commons has to offer before I graduate.
Food for Thought: Koko
New to Food For Thought? Here’s the rundown: For a modest-sized city of around 30,000, Ithaca has an impressive restaurant collection. And since Cornell is a significant portion of that population, it makes sense to review all the options within walking distance from campus. From Waffle Frolic to CTB to RPCC brunch, I am determined to sample all the goods our lovely campus and surrounding Collegetown + Commons has to offer before I graduate.
Food for Thought: Big Red Barn
The Food: Portabello Panini 1) Portabello Panini (VG), $6.99 “Marinated portabello mushrooms, caramelized onions, Swiss cheese, garlic aioli, on multigrain sunflower bread” Taste: 4/5 Value: 4/5 2) Cubano Panini, $7.49 “BBQ pork, sliced ham, Swiss cheese, garlic aioli, spicy brown mustard, and dill pickles on multigrain sunflower bread” Taste: 4/5 Value: 4/5 The Thoughts: It’s difficult for me to eat anything in the Big Red Barn and dislike it just because everything else about the place is...
Food for Thought: Ithaca Farmer’s Market
Welcome back to Food for Thought! This week I visited the Farmer’s Market with my friends Kaitlyn and Melissa. The Food: Ithaca Farmer’s Market Top: Korean Beef Bowl. Bottom: Korean Veggie Bowl Hungarian Spiced Chicken Crepe. The Thoughts: 1) Korean Beef Bowl, $10 Taste: 3.5/5 Value: 2/5 A standard street-style serving: half beef and half vegetables, including beets, carrots, and cabbage. The owners are friendly and cook every order in less than 5 minutes.
New Multidisciplinary Project Team Tackles Current Biomedical Issues
CUBMD Front row (from left to right): Varun Rohatgi, Jiawen Yang, Kristen Ong, Yashi Sanghvi, Naseem Dabiran, Regina Casimiro-Nunez Back row (from left to right): Oscar Liu, Shamanth Murundi, Jason Chen, Rachel Lee, Jonah Schieber and Raul Saucedo 11 mins ago Science By Catherine Cai | 11 mins ago At the intersection of medical research and engineering, Cornell University Biomedical Devices Team works on various projects that can be applied in real-world medical settings.
Food for Thought: Asian Noodle House
The Food: Asian Noodle House (ANH) ANH is a small Thai restaurant housed at 204 Dryden Road. The Food: 1) Gyoza $4.25 a) Taste: 5/5 b) Value: 4/5 My friend Delia ordered this cute little dish. Fun fact: they’re actually the Japanese version of dumplings! She said they were amazing. They look about the right amount for a one-person appetizer. 2) Spicy Basil Fried Rice $10.50 a) Taste: 3.5/5 b) Value: 4.5/5 Kaitlyn ordered a classic fried rice.
Cornell Students Single-Handedly Operate a Chemical Engineering Facility in Discovery Space Program
What kind of world-class chemical engineering facility would let a group of undergraduates run their plant for a day? The Discovery Space program at Imperial College in London does. This summer, in a fast-paced and immersive environment, undergraduate chemical engineers from Cornell applied classroom theory to real-life objectives over the course of five weeks. Feifei Hu ’21 was one of the 21 chemical engineering students from Cornell who participated in the program.
3 Realistic Approaches to Kubernetes RBAC
Cat Cai Cat Cai is currently the Director of Platform Engineering at Fair. When not coding, you can find her writing about coding or powerlifting. Role-based Access Control (RBAC) on Kubernetes on paper seems totally sensible. It’s obvious: of course an organization would want to enforce user and application access policies to a cluster.
Cornell Hosts 2019 Science Olympiad National Tournament for Middle and High Schoolers
Science Olympiad Troy High School holds their first place trophy at the closing ceremony. 13 mins ago Science By catherinecai | 13 mins ago Last week, Cornell became the first Ivy League school to host the Science Olympiad National Tournament in 35 years. On June 1, 120 participating teams from middle schools and high schools all over the country — as well as one team from Japan — showcased their skills in fields including biology, forensic science, engineering and creative problem-solving.
Cancer Biology, Machine Learning, and Creative Problem Solving at Cornell’s Microbiome Hackathon
On Sunday, April 14, students participating in Cornell’s Microbiome Hackathon wrapped up 28 hours of work by showing off their creations which included an app to predict one’s risk of neurological disease, a possible solution to the disappearing honeybees and machine learning algorithms designed to predict incidence of colorectal cancer.
How Can Students Most Effectively Learn Physics?
Any Cornell student who has taken physics class may have wondered at some point: “what makes physics so difficult to understand?” While students may be asking this out of frustration, Prof. Paula Heron, physics, University of Washington and the Cornell Physics Education Research Lab are pursuing answers to these questions in order to improve their classrooms and help their students succeed.
A Tribute to the Women in Lab Coats, Behind the Microscopes and Computer Screens
Throughout history, Cornell has been a beacon of scientific discovery among higher education institutions. Of Cornell’s alumni, many prominent female scientists have paved the way for women in STEM — among them Barbara McClintock ‘27, who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of mobile genetic elements. For International Women’s Day, take a look through a few influential female leaders in STEM, all of whom are currently professors at Cornell.
When Love is the Doctor - Cornell Research Reveals Health Benefits of Being in a Relationship
Alicia Wang/Sun Sketch Editor 2 mins ago Featured in Category By Catherine Cai | 2 mins ago Whether it is through Tinder, Bumble or the Cornell algorithm, Perfect Match, it seems like everyone is looking for love this winter; and rightly so! Chocolate and gushy stuff aside, according to Cornell’s Department of Human Development, personal or romantic relationships can also provide significant health benefits. Prof.
Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture Incorporates Interdisciplinary Expertise to Address Food Insecurity
Ten billion by 2050. This is the figure that is repeated time and time again as researchers discuss the current food insecurity and how the agricultural community must be able to sustain a growing global population. Cornell University has launched an initiative called Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture to address the food production concerns from several different standpoints.
ILR Program Gives Students Policy Analysis Experience in Zambia
This past summer, a group of students from Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations traveled to Lusaka, Zambia for a research project that immersed them in the sociopolitical landscape of Southern Africa for eight weeks. This 12-person team, made up of ILR students interested in global health, worked with one another and with local organizations to study and present their findings on topics ranging from workforce barriers to new development policies.
Th17 cells are more protective than Th1 cells against the intracellular parasite Trypanosoma cruzi.
Th1 cells are considered the major CD4+T helper subset responsible for the control of intracellular pathogens, including Trypanosoma cruzi, the protozoan parasite of Chagas disease. Th17 cells are known for their involvement in autoimmunity and the defense against some extracellular organisms, but are generally not believed to have a significant function during intracellular infections. In contrast, we show that Th17 cells are highly protective against the intracellular pathogen T. cruzi.
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