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Dear Cornell Bowers,

Don't let the recent snow and sudden dip in temperatures get you down — there are small but welcome signs that spring is on its way. The days are stretching a little longer, and with that extra light comes a sense of momentum across our community.

Thank you to everyone who participated in Giving Day — whether by spreading the word, donating, or signing thank you postcards for our donors. Your enthusiasm and generosity help strengthen the Bowers community and make a meaningful difference. Congratulations as well to Neha Sudarshan, Grace Wei, and Mahidul Islam, student volunteers and winners of the Bowers swag.

Best of luck to all of you taking prelims. Please remember to prioritize your health and reach out to faculty, staff, and peers for support when you need it.

Sincerely,

Sorin Lerner

Dean

Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

dean@bowers.cornell.edu

Bowers Ph.D. student Jonathan Segal among the nine advancing to the 3MT finals

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Because sometimes, good ideas flow better under blue skies 🌤️💻

Spring is nearly here – and that means you can take your work outside soon!
Make sure to check out all the new spaces near the Bowers courtyard.

📸: Zoe Ku, Student Content Producer

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Four Bowers superstar staffers receive awards

Four exceptional staffers from Cornell Bowers received staff awards at the college’s all-staff meeting.

Rising Star Award:

Erin Pyrek

Excellence in Inclusion and Belonging Award:

Mary Paige

Staff Innovation Award:

Laura Schad

Exceptional Performance Award:

Liz Estabrook

Alum Gilles Brassard receives Turing Award, highest CS honor

Gilles Brassard, Ph.D. ’79, has received the 2025 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), jointly with Charles Bennett, for founding the field of quantum information science and for new encryption technology for secure communication and computing.

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Dean honored for community-engaged innovation

Sarah Dean was among the fourteen members of Cornell’s faculty and staff being recognized this year with Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.

Yin named Cornell Center for Social Sciences Faculty Fellow

The Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) has named Yian Yin to its 2026-27 Faculty Fellows cohort.

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AI on deck: assessing impact of MLB’s new ball-strike system

For 150 years, Major League Baseball players and fans have accepted that umpires occasionally miss balls and strikes, but this spring, MLB is introducing an AI‑enhanced camera system that lets players challenge questionable calls. This shift inspired a Cornell research team to examine how MLB stakeholders are adapting to the Automated Ball‑Strike System (ABS).

Cornell Bowers Researchers:

Malte Jung

Waki Kamino

Andrea Wen-Yi Wang

Are mental health apps like doctors, yogis, drugs, or supplements?

Ned Cooper and Qian Yang developed new guidelines for developing safe and responsible large language model (LLM)-based mental well-being apps by consulting relevant experts and reviewing existing state and federal regulations.

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Experts examine the use of generative AI in science

“GenAI has tremendous potential to reveal new insights, but it is vital that we move beyond anecdotes to systematically assess its impact, and take an active hand in how its use in science unfolds in the future.”

-Yian Yin, assistant professor of information science

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AI assistants can sway writers’ attitudes, even when they’re watching for bias

AI-powered writing tools such as autocomplete suggestions can definitely change the way people express themselves, but can they also change how they think? Bowers researchers think so.

Cornell Bowers Researchers:

Maurice Jakesch, Ph.D. ’24

Mor Naaman

Sterling Williams-Ceci ’21

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AI slop is destroying the internet. These are the people fighting to save it

Abe Davis

Are ‘bossware’ tools tracking you?

Karen Levy

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: These LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud

Paul Ginsparg

Active learning classrooms foster collaboration among students

Steven Jackson

Big Red, Big Impact - Swab to save a life.

March 13–20

Cornellians are driving a campuswide effort to add 10,000 new potential stem cell donors to the NMDP registry. With a 30-second cheek swab, you can help advance lifesaving research and increase match chances for patients with life-threatening blood disorders like leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle cell disease. It’s a simple way our community can make an immediate difference.

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The Scientific Legacy of
Joseph Halpern

April 10

12-2 p.m. (Reception 12-12:30 p.m.)

250 Computing and Information
Science Building
Click here to attend via Zoom.

Speakers: Larry Blume, Rafael Pass,
and Fred Schneider