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Anisha Tehim ’26: A future in precision medicine

A year into her undergraduate studies on the West Coast, Anisha Tehim ’26 decided to make a change.

She wanted to study computational biology but still have the flexibility to explore different disciplines. She wanted to dive deeper into research, too. Cornell University and, specifically, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science offered the right mix of specialization and exploration.
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Karen Petrosyan '26: Establishing a strong foundation for research

For Karen (Kah-REN) Petrosyan '26, a double major in statistics and economics, his favorite memory of Cornell is also his first. Petrosyan grew up in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, and was unable to visit campus before enrolling. But he knew Cornell would give him the opportunity to study both his chosen fields at the highest level possible and to pursue his passion for research.

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Maryam Albakry '26: Cornell is your playground

Coming to Cornell was an easy decision for Maryam Albakry '26. 

As the fourth child of Egyptian immigrants, growing up in New York City, her father had dreamed of attending the hotel school. He never realized his dream, but her older brother, Hady Albakry '20, graduated with a degree in computer science. “I had always grown up thinking Cornell was the best school,” she said. 

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Andrew Kang ‘26: Making the most of undergraduate research opportunities

Andrew Kang ’26 discovered a passion for research during his time as a computer science and mathematics major in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Ithaca Community Recovery, located in downtown Ithaca, schedules more than 200 meetings a month for 35 groups - a new platform designed by project team Hack4Impact will make it easier to populate, track and edit the calendar.
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Bowers Students design crucial tool for Ithaca’s recovery community
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BURE summer scholars embark on open world of research
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Research by Cornell Tech Ph.D. student, Jack Morris, featured in VentureBeat
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Xiaoying Gan ’25: Using data to transform the future of food
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Vipin Gunda '25 uses AI to redefine wearable tech
Vipin Gunda '25 uses AI to redefine wearable tech
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Students learn about AI, engineering through weather balloons
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And that's when a computer science major friend told me about,
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“Have you ever heard of information science?”
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I think the unique thing about Bowers is, as a college, we can
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double major in a lot of other things.
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And that's really the fun part of Bowers,
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right, is you can you can be interdisciplinary.
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Research definitely has been a pretty formative
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experience at Bowers because it puts you in contact
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with all these amazing people who are doing interesting projects.
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I think I would describe my time at Bowers as a pretty transformative
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and formative experience because it really put me on a different
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path towards research and doing more quantitative analysis.
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Dr. College I'm thinking of doing being a research assistant.
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I will be either helping out or running my own project in policy related area.
Bingsong Li ’25: His Road to Research
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AI and mental health focus of latest Cornell ‘Summit’
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SAIL Sets a Course for Smarter Trade Compliance With AI
SAIL Sets a Course for Smarter Trade Compliance With AI
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