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NSF challenges Cornell to tame winter, natural disasters
Partnering with community organizations, Cornell researchers are developing and planning a hyperlocal weather forecasting system designed to improve winter-storm emergency response and enhance natural disaster coordination for New York state’s rural communities.
Max Zhang, professor in Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will lead the federally funded effort this spring.
The work is part of the new Civic Innovation Challenge, announced Feb. 17, an $11 million effort led by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The four-month challenge seeks to empower communities to achieve necessary local weather and disaster solutions, so that one day such plans may be scaled up regionally or nationally.
“I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you!” If you know this quote, you know it’s from no other than supermodel and mogul Tyra Banks. She taught us how to ‘smize,’ and created 24 seasons of binge-able reality TV,
America’s Next Top Model. Banks was born on December 4, 1973 in California and started modeling at the age of 15. She started modeling in Europe, and quickly booked 25 shows during the 1991 Paris Fashion Week, her first runway season. Banks continued to find success, being the first model of African-American descent to grace the cover of
GQ and
Sports Illustrated. She shot to stardom as a Victoria’s Secret Angel in 1997 and walked the VS runway for eight years, becoming one of the world’s top-earning models in the early 2000s.
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