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All the good Cornellians can do

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“We’ve got world-class experts in all of those areas working day and night to keep people and their animals safe."

Alex Travis, director of Cornell Public Health, and chair of Department of Public & Ecosystem Health, College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), on CVM's new Avian Flu Resource Center

Source: College of Veterinary Medicine | Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) Resource Center QUOTE 

1 of the 8,078 species sighted in Cornell Lab’s Great Backyard Bird Count

White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) spotted on February 15, 2025, by Jenna Patrick in her yard in Ohio. Click the link to view more stunning photos submitted by 700,000+ birders around the globe. Source: The Great Backyard Bird Count  |  Photo: Jenna Patrick PHOTOGRAPH 

New instruments and sounds

Source: New and evolving Cornell inventions and methods VIDEO 

A ‘smart syringe’ for producing living tissue

As an undergraduate, Jared Matthews ’21 developed a smart syringe that can measure, in real-time, the concentration and viability of cells that pass through it. This device, developed in partnership with Professor Lawrence Bonassar, could enable surgeons and biomanufacturers to produce higher-quality living tissue and organs for people who need implants. Source: New and evolving Cornell inventions and methods LINK 

Revolutionizing modern music

Invented by Robert Moog PhD ’65, the Moog Synthesizer is the world’s first commercial electronic musical instrument. Source: Cornell innovations that changed the way we travel and chill out LINK 

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 
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