<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>research</title><description></description><link></link><item><title><![CDATA[Cryo-imaging gives deeper view of thick biological materials]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers devised a new method to image intact bacterial cells and large organelle up to 500-800 nanometers thick – a roughly fivefold improvement over current methods.&nbsp;]]></description><pubDate>October 06th, 2025</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/cryo-imaging-gives-deeper-view-thick-biological-materials]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sustainable practices could cut food-related emissions in half]]></title><description><![CDATA[Food systems make up roughly 30% of total greenhouse gas emissions globally. But transforming them could cut these emissions by more than half, according to a&nbsp;report released Oct. 3 from a commission of global experts.]]></description><pubDate>October 03rd, 2025</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/sustainable-practices-could-cut-food-related-emissions-half]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birds’ vocal warnings provide new insight into the origins of language]]></title><description><![CDATA[New research sheds light on the evolution of language, discovering a link between innate and learned vocalizations.&nbsp;]]></description><pubDate>October 03rd, 2025</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/birds-vocal-warnings-provide-new-insight-origins-language]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[NIH grant to fund autism research center]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s Ithaca campus will use a $5.1 million grant from the NIH to launch the Autism Replication, Validation, and Reproducibility Center, which aims to improve the reliability of autism research.]]></description><pubDate>October 02nd, 2025</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/nih-grant-fund-autism-research-center]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political views, not sex and violence, now drive literary censorship]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liberals and conservatives both oppose censorship of children’s literature – unless the writing offends their own political ideology, showing how a once-bipartisan issue has become polarized.]]></description><pubDate>October 02nd, 2025</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/political-views-not-sex-and-violence-now-drive-literary-censorship]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weill Institute to host 8th biennial symposium, Oct. 13–14]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology will bring together leading scientists from across the globe and across disciplines for its 8th Biennial Weill Institute Symposium, Oct. 13–14. The two-day program, taking place in Ithaca, NY., will showcase advances in molecular and cell biology research, while fostering opportunities for Cornell students and postdoctoral scholars to connect with internationally recognized leaders in the life sciences.]]></description><pubDate>October 01st, 2025</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/weill-institute-host-8th-biennial-symposium-oct-13-14]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain tolerance increases during social interaction in VR]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers in the Virtual Embodiment Lab found that engagement in social virtual reality, whether with loved ones or total strangers, enhances pain tolerance.]]></description><pubDate>October 01st, 2025</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/pain-tolerance-increases-during-social-interaction-vr]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicist: After 33 billon years, universe ‘will end in a big crunch’]]></title><description><![CDATA[After expanding to its peak size about 11 billion years from now, the universe will begin to contract – snapping back like a rubber band to a single point at the end, according to a Cornell physicist.]]></description><pubDate>October 01st, 2025</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/physicist-after-33-billon-years-universe-will-end-big-crunch]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Models feel hemmed in by AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using generative AI, fashion designers can use digital photos to adjust models’ features and even deploy fully digital avatars in place of humans. A team including an ILR School researcher has written a paper highlighting models’ challenges.]]></description><pubDate>September 30th, 2025</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/09/models-feel-hemmed-ai]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cornell awarded NSF grant to build AI-ready living lab for agriculture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cornell University has been awarded a portion of a $2 million planning initiative from the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish AI4Ag, a national testbed for artificial intelligence in agriculture.]]></description><pubDate>September 30th, 2025</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/09/cornell-awarded-nsf-grant-build-ai-ready-living-lab-agriculture]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[DNA Double Take]]></title><description><![CDATA[From biology class to “C.S.I.,” we are told again and again that our genome is at the heart of our identity. Read the sequences in the chromosomes of a single cell, and learn everything about a person’s genetic information — or, as 23andme, a prominent genetic testing company, says on its Web site, “The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself.”]]></description><pubDate>December 01st, 2013</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/dna-double-take.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Capture Most Detailed Picture Yet of Key AIDS Protein]]></title><description><![CDATA[Collaborating scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and Weill Cornell Medical College have determined the first atomic-level structure of the tripartite HIV envelope protein — long considered one of the most difficult targets in structural biology and of great value for medical science&#039;s.]]></description><pubDate>November 08th, 2013</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://weill.cornell.edu/news/releases/wcmc/wcmc_2013/10_31_13.shtml]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[UNCF-Merck Undergraduate Science Research Scholarship]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United Negro College Fund and the Merck Company Foundation announce the availability of the UNCF/Merck Undergraduate Science Research Scholarship Awards.]]></description><pubDate>October 31st, 2013</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://scholarships.uncf.org/Program/Details/f95e434c-1466-4949-a028-0f12fab13d2c]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[A History of Science: Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source]]></title><description><![CDATA[Driving up Campus Road in the afternoon, you can see many varsity and club athletes practicing on Alumni Fields. But 40 feet underneath them and half a mile in circumference sits the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source.]]></description><pubDate>October 30th, 2013</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://cornellsun.com/blog/2013/10/30/a-history-of-science-cornell-high-energy-synchrotron-source/]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peer Review: Paige Kulling &amp;#8217;14 Studies DNA Repair Mechanisms]]></title><description><![CDATA[It can be a Herculean task for researchers to make successful and convincing arguments that contradict the mainstream beliefs in their fields. But Paige Kulling &#039;14 may be one to take up the challenge.]]></description><pubDate>October 30th, 2013</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://cornellsun.com/blog/2013/10/30/a-history-of-science-cornell-high-energy-synchrotron-source/]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prof. Adam Siepel ’94 Tracks Evolutionary Changes in Human Genome]]></title><description><![CDATA[Although large projects such as the human genome project and the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, also known as ENCODE, have sequenced and catalogued the portions of the human genome that have a known function, only the protein coding regions of the genome have been extensively studied, which make up two percent of the entire genome.]]></description><pubDate>October 30th, 2013</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://cornellsun.com/blog/2013/10/30/prof-adam-siepel-94-tracks-evolutionary-changes-in-human-genome]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Pick a Graduate Advisor]]></title><description><![CDATA[A guide for young scientists on how to select a graduate advisor or postdoctoral advisor. Good mentorship is not only pivotal for career success, but it is pivotal for driving innovation and for the health of our universities. Universities need to do much more to teach faculty how to mentor and to ensure mentoring quality.]]></description><pubDate>October 30th, 2013</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://download.cell.com/neuron/pdf/PIIS0896627313009070.pdf?intermediate=true]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[TRUSTEE VIEWPOINT: Learning Outside of the Classroom]]></title><description><![CDATA[The opportunities available to students at Cornell are numerous. First-year and transfer students, in particular, who have not done so already so, should try to join a club, organization or assist a professor in doing research. There are hundreds of ways to get involved on campus.]]></description><pubDate>October 15th, 2013</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://cornellsun.com/blog/2013/10/07/trustee-viewpoint-learning-outside-of-the-classroom/]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immune System Research Linked to Obesity]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to the Center for Disease Control, more than one in every three American adults is obese. Obese individuals are at a greater risk for cancer and other diseases, but the reason for this association has never been determined.]]></description><pubDate>October 04th, 2013</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://cornellsun.com/blog/2013/10/02/immune-system-research-linked-to-obesity/]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alumni Couple Gives Grant to Anthropology Department]]></title><description><![CDATA[A gift from a Cornell alumni couple will enable anthropology majors with certain concentrations to travel abroad and conduct research.]]></description><pubDate>October 04th, 2013</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://cornellsun.com/blog/2013/09/30/alumni-couple-gives-grant-to-anthropology-department/]]></link><thumb>https://undergraduateresearch.cornell.edu/wp-content/themes/research/assets/images/placeholder-news.png</thumb></item></channel> </rss>