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In their first year at Cornell, Ariel Schulsinger ’24, Maggie Shideler ’24 and Gabi Steinberg ’24 were placed in a group as part of Intro to Public Health, a required course for all Global and Public Health Sciences (GPHS) majors. They worked together to design an intervention for obesity ؅— a dance program for middle-school girls in the Bronx — and presented it at a virtual symposium. Fast forward four years, and the same

Malte Jung, associate professor of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, along with two Cornell alumni, are among the recipients of the inaugural round of seed grant from the Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society (TRAILS). The eight funded projects, totaling just over $1.5 million, will advance cutting-edge research and scholarship that spans AI design, development and governance.

TRAILS is a multi-institutional effort that

Gwen Whiting ’98 has established a $1 million endowed scholarship that will provide full tuition to one undergraduate student in the College of Human Ecology each year. Her gift was matched by an additional $500,000 from the university as part of Cornell’s affordability challenge, which aims to make a Cornell education even more affordable for talented students from all socioeconomic backgrounds. Whiting is serving as the Human Ecology’s campaign co-chair for Cornell’s To Do the

For Marie Cajoux ’26, her interest in aging began long before she declared a minor.

Watching her grandmother navigate the health-care system, she saw firsthand how difficult and deeply personal aging can be. There were moments when her grandmother struggled to be heard. Moments that stayed with her. That experience shaped Cajoux’s path, leading her to geriatric care and eventually to Cornell’s gerontology minor.

“It inspired me to really think about pursuing geriatrics as my