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In 2020, Yian Yin teamed up with economists at Northwestern University to look at the impact of researchers who had shifted their focus to study the COVID pandemic. He saw that these researchers faced a "pivot penalty" – their COVID-related work received less attention than previous contributions in their old field – and the greater the pivot, the worse the...

Pedro (Zeyang) Yu, MPS ’25, never gives up. His personal mantra is tattooed above his heart. It reads, “It’s not over until I win.” This mantra served him as a 17-year-old Chinese native new to the United States and living with a beloved host family. He lived it through high school in Buffalo, New York – the international kid with passable English who...

At Weill Cornell Medical College, students have a new tool for polishing their bedside manner and making a diagnosis: an artificial intelligence-powered virtual patient that simulates the doctor-patient interaction. The simulator, called MedSimAI, has a text-based chat function and a voice conversation mode that approximates a telehealth visit. It gives...