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Megan Unrath ’21 says her Cornell ROTC training helped her become a leader

Source: Alumni News | Captain Megan Unrath ’21 builds a legacy of service Short Piece 

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Smart glasses for people with hearing loss

Nirbhay Narang ’25 developed smart glasses that use artificial intelligence to provide real-time transcriptions of audio. “For many people, hearing aids are imperfect and too expensive, and they aren’t able to process the sounds you want to hear and leave out background noise,” says Narang. Source: New and evolving Cornell inventions and methods LINK 

Willis Carrier, 1901 invented air conditioning

Willis Carrier, 1901 invented the air conditioner, a device that dramatically transformed the way people live and work all around the world. Source: Cornell innovations that changed the way we travel and chill out LINK 

Inventor highlight: Meredith Gourdine ’53

Source: Cornell innovations that changed the way we travel and chill out VIDEO 

Designing robots for farming, ocean exploration, and beyond

Cornell students and faculty are making groundbreaking designs and discoveries for all kinds of robotics. Source: New and evolving Cornell inventions and methods LINK 

A new way to experience travel

Civil engineer Olive Wetzel Dennis, 1921 transformed the way passengers experience the American railway. She integrated numerous amenities into passenger cars, many of which are used today in and beyond the railways. Source: Cornell innovations that changed the way we travel and chill out LINK 

Inventor highlight: Ezra Cornell

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‘Barbecue Bob’ Baker, inventor of the chicken nugget, transformed the way we eat chicken

Professor Robert C. Baker helped develop chicken nuggets, turkey ham, and poultry hot dogs. He also created the famous Cornell chicken barbecue sauce. Source: Ezra Magazine: How Barbecue Bob Baker transformed chicken LINK 

"This work is a way to get a view into the more common or daily experience that just isn’t well attested in a lot of other historical documents."

Professor Matthew Wilkens

A Cornell-led research team is using artificial intelligence to analyze nearly 13,500 books from the last 230 years, highlighting a novel way for scholars in digital humanities and cultural analytics to use large language models.  Source: New and evolving Cornell inventions and methods QUOTE 

More than 70 apple varieties developed at Cornell since 1880

“Research and thorough testing are crucial in making a really good apple, but that takes a whole team,” says Susan Brown, the Herman M. Cohn Professor of Agriculture and Life Science. Source: Crunchy, complex: Cornell releases three new apples LINK 

“We’re not trying to replace traditional or reference laboratories, but in places where people don’t have access to laboratory and medical settings, this is a way to decentralize health care and extend the reach of central labs.”

Saurabh Mehta, the Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor

An interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers developed AnemiaPhone, a device that enables rapid screening and diagnosis of iron deficiency.  Source: New and evolving Cornell inventions and methods QUOTE 
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