Research Matters
Cornell University
The Research Matters podcast features candid conversations with Cornell University researchers who are tackling some of society’s most urgent challenges and finding solutions that make a difference. Hear from experts who are not just studying the world, but changing it, turning data into discoveries, and ideas into impact. Produced by Cornell University Relations. Read more at news.cornell.edu.
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Jul 25, 2024 • 5min
Narrated story: How to ease teens' transition to high school
Providing teenagers opportunities to affirm positive aspects of their identities and values can help bolster their self-esteem and ease transitions to high school, new Cornell psychology research finds.
Jul 17, 2024 • 8min
Narrated story: Unique bond powers twin mechanical engineering students
Identical twins Ashley and Verena Padres ’26 fell in love with the idea of space exploration and working together at an early age – now they employ and enjoy that spirit of curiosity and collaboration at Cornell.
Jul 3, 2024 • 9min
Narrated story: Double Ups help food stamps go farther
Cornell researchers are part of an $8.08 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture through which they’ll assess and improve New York’s Double Up Food Bucks program, which is piloting the first Double Up online shopping option in the nation. The team will help the program expand to every county outside of New York City by 2027 and reach an estimated 200,000 SNAP recipients who do not currently have access to it.
Jun 25, 2024 • 10min
Narrated story: Frank Rosenblatt pioneered artificial intelligence in 1958
Frank Rosenblatt '50, associate professor of neurobiology and behavior in Cornell’s Division of Biological Sciences, created a machine capable of learning and understanding its surroundings without human control in 1958, but he was 60 years ahead of his time. The field of artificial intelligence languished, and he died at the age of 43, decades before new AI pioneers finally built on his groundbreaking work.
Jun 18, 2024 • 4min
Narrated story: The shape of foxes' noses prevent snow injuries
When hunting for mice, foxes are known to plunge headfirst into snow. It's their sharp noses that protect them from injury, according to a new study.
Jun 12, 2024 • 5min
Narrated story: Lab of Ornithology staff member dedicates her free time to native bats
Victoria Campbell spends her free time caring for bats in need – setting tiny broken bones, feeding babies, treating illness and nursing native bats back to health so they can be released. Read the original story and see photos.
Jun 11, 2024 • 18min
How a psychedelic experience transformed a neuroscientist's research – and his life
Jesse Goldberg, associate professor of neurobiology and behavior and Robert R. Capranica Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences, tells a story of how experiences with his own health have changed his research and his personal journey. Read more about Goldberg's research.
Jun 11, 2024 • 17min
Balto and me: A love of dogs inspires a life in science
Heather Huson ’97, associate professor of animal science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has a personal connection to dog sledding, having raced competitively for almost 25 years throughout North America. Now she studies how genetics shapes the traits – from physiology and speed to behavior and diet – that produce the ideal working canine, including detection and seeing-eye dogs.Read more about it.
