Cornell Chronicle
December 2017
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Village resident Klaus Jacobs, a research geologist at Columbia University, said the students’ work comes at a pivotal point: “Without those visions to get projects started, this would be basically impossible. This is a very crucial step in a long process that would be much harder if we hadn’t had [these ideas] from Cornell.”