ITHACA, New York, Dec. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Hector D. Abruna, the Emile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government. The award will be shared with two other scientists, Paul Alivisatos and John Hopkins Nuckolls. Abruna is being recognized "for revolut more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Reinforcement Learning (RL), an artificial intelligence approach, has the potential to guide physicians in designing sequential treatment strategies for better patient outcomes but requires significant improvements before it can be applied in clinical settings, researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and Rockefeller University have found. RL is a class of machine learning algorithms able to make a series of decisions ov more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Early this year, the City of Rome announced the winning design of an international competition aimed at the redevelopment of the Via dei Fori Imperiali and surrounding Imperial Forum archaeological sites. Labics, a design office cofounded by Francesco Isidori and Maria Claudia Clemente, was selected for their proposed promenade, which will improve access to and understanding of this iconic setting for both residents and  more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Despite being unbound by space and time, fictional protagonists in American literature travel fewer miles than their nonfiction counterparts, according to a Cornell-led research team that used artificial intelligence to analyze nearly 13,500 books from the last 230 years. The team also found that despite social constraints that affected women's mobility over the last three centuries, female protagonists throughout Ameri more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Romina Wainberg, Klarman Fellow in Romance studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, is co-editor of the trilingual collected volume "Queer Latin American Voices" (Katakana, 2024), which contains brief texts and illustrations by Latin American LGBTQIA+ writers and artists, accompanied by responses by queer academics in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Translations and visual art pieces illuminate the written works. In more PR

GENESEO, New York, Dec. 20 (TNSres) -- The State University of New York's Geneseo Campus issued the following news: Rachel Britton '18, a writer/editor/translator, has published her first book of poems in translation from Icelandic, A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder, by Brynja Hjalmsdottir (Circumference Books, 2024). An excerpt of the translation also received the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Leif and Inger Sjoberg Prize in 2023. "As a translator and technical writer, I am first and forem more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news: The Gensler Family AAP NYC Center welcomed architect and founder of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) Vishaan Chakrabarti to the faculty this semester as the Thomas J. Baird Visiting Critic. In this capacity, Chakrabarti led Master of Science in Advanced Urban Design students in The Fundamentals of Urban Design, the first in a series of the degree program's studio courses that prepares students to explore, ana more PR