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Through community, Indigenous students thrive in STEM

Cannon Cline ’25, center, of the Nanticoke tribe and co-president of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, accompanies prospective Indigenous high school students on a lab tour on March 22.
Cannon Cline ’25, center, of the Nanticoke tribe and co-president of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, accompanies prospective Indigenous high school students on a lab tour on March 22. (Noël Heaney/Cornell University)

By Caitlin Hayes, Cornell Chronicle

Growing up in coastal Delaware and Maryland as part of the Nanticoke tribal community, Cannon Cline ’25 became fascinated with the way storms transformed the coastline. As he grew older, he wanted to understand how weather and climate change impacted the land and the communities that live off of it, communities often marginalized like his own.

“I feel very passionate about being able to use what I do and the things I’m interested in to serve my Indigenous community and any underserved community,” said Cline, an Earth and atmospheric sciences major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and co-president of the university’s chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), a student organization focused on strengthening and growing the Indigenous STEM community at Cornell.

Read entire story on the Cornell Chronicle