Cornell researchers have built a robot that works out its own model of itself and can revise the model to adapt to injury. First, it teaches itself to walk. Then, when damaged, it teaches itself to limp.
"Caddy-It," a storage bag that attaches to a walker for the elderly or infirm, won top honors for its creators, Lorena Alvarez '08 and Heather Burkman '08, at the annual Undergraduate Business Idea Competition, held Nov. 4. Five…
This Decade of Challenge article looks at Cornell's strategies to minimize the dangers of student alcohol and drug use, with education, enforcement, health services and other initiatives.
Cornell is hosting a two-day conference and symposium, "Native Water Law and Public Policy: Critical Issues in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Watersheds," Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17 and 18, in Myron Taylor Hall, Rooms G85 and…
We are moving from a welfare state to a welfare planet, predicted former Cornell President Jeffrey S. Lehman, Nov. 9 in Bache Hall, in one of his first formal scholarly presentations on campus.Lehman's early academic life was to…
Giselle Vitaliti '07 began college excited and hopeful, but by the start of her second semester, pressures from her parents to do well at school, the workload and financial concerns resulted in physical illness and isolation.
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Researchers using the Arecibo Observatory's powerful radar have made the most detailed observations ever of a binary near-Earth asteroid (NEA) -- two clusters of rubble circling each other -- offering new clues about how such…
Former Israeli prime minister and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres will visit Cornell on Nov. 28 to speak about Israel and the prospects for peace in the Middle East.The talk, "A Conversation with Shimon Peres on Israel and the Middle…
Getting at the truth about the language of lies and how and under what circumstances we weave our tangled webs is much of the stuff of Jeff Hancock's research.
"Equality." Just about everyone in an egalitarian society agrees that equality is a positive concept. But beneath that explicit attitude lies the shadow: a matrix of implicit judgments and attitudes cloaked in a subtle scrim of…
Irwin M. Jacobs returned to Cornell Nov. 7 as the 27th Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education to talk on "The Incredible Cell Phone: Personal Notes on an Evolving Technology, Business Model, Applications and Global Impact."
