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Cornell Chronicle: Cornell expands AI Critical Literacy Program for incoming students. “After a successful pilot launch in the spring, Cornell’s AI Critical Literacy Program will be offered in the fall to all incoming students as well as other interested students, faculty members and staff. The expanded program will feature four modules – ‘What is Generative AI?’; ‘Ethical Questions […]

Global Atlas Will Track Human And Climate Impact On River Systems
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https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/global-atlas-will-track-human-and-climate-impact-river-systems
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“Rivers are critical resources that affect everything from watersheds to agriculture to energy. But rivers, in turn, have been impacted by humans, often in the form of hydraulic infrastructure such as dams and wells.
A new [Cornell] project… will create a global record that shows how river systems around the world have changed under human influence over the last 75 years…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #research #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #water #waterresources #river #remotesensing #earthobservation #climatechange #climate #change #resources #humanimpacts #survey #monitoring #hydraulic #infrastructure #dams #wells #engineered #canals #global #spatialdata #opendata #history #anthropocene #freshwater #DARE #sediment #discharge #transport #temperature #fish #biodiversity #atlas #ecology #ecosystems #riverine #delta #model #modeling #machinelearning #AI
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@GottaLaff

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"...effect 👉[more than] 50 years ago👈..., extending the right to vote to all Americans age 18 and older." (2)

This was in 1971!

“We have an 👉amendment process that’s the hardest in the world to enact👈,” said #AzizRana, a professor of #ConstitutionalLaw at #CornellUniversity.
“That’s the reason why it’s basically 👉 a dead letter to enact constitutional amendments.👈
You have to have rolling #supermajorities across the country to do so.”
Out of almost 12,000..."

Beloved professor Dean Alfange, Jr., passed away Jan. 1, 2023.

#UMass #PoliticalScience #PolSci #ConstitutionalLaw
#CornellUniversity
#HamiltonCollege
#LafayetteCollege
#UniversityOfColorado
#UniversityOfMassachusetts
#AirForceReserves
#ValleyLightOpera
#Amherst #WMASS #MAPoli
#DeanAlfange #AlfangeLecture

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/gazettenet/name/dean-alfange-obituary?id=38554636