4-H youth sample careers, college life at conference

Hundreds of New York state high school students came to campus to explore college and specific fields at Cornell Cooperative Extension’s 4-H Career Explorations conference July 1-3.

BEST program gives Ph.D.s insights into nonacademic jobs

The Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program, which offers career resources about non-academic jobs, is now available to all Cornell Ph.D. students and postdocs.

Robots learn from (even bad) human language

Robots can learn new tasks from step by step instructions in natural language, even if the instructions are poorly worded or incomplete.

Microsoft fellow David Steurer seeks ultimate algorithm

Computer scientist David Steurer has been awarded a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship to support research to find the "laws of efficient computation," which might lead to a new way to solve many very hard problems.

Cornell Tech will be 'land grant' school for NYC

The growth of Cornell Tech over the next few years will be exciting to watch and in many ways similar to what we see on the Ithaca campus, but with a novel approach, a Reunion audience was told June 7.

Atkinson Center awards $1.4 million to new projects

Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future gives $1.4 million from their Academic Venture Fund to 12 new scientific projects. The awards were culled from a record-setting 49 proposals.

Making a covert channel on the Internet

By modifying timing on the picosecond level, Cornell researchers send undetectable high-bandwidth messages.

Cornell Tech grads solve problems large and small

Six exploratory startup projects were showcased May 16 during Cornell Tech's third Open Studio.

Top seniors honored as 2014 Merrill scholars

On May 21, the Cornell Merrill Presidential Scholars Program honored 33 outstanding graduating seniors and the high school teachers and university faculty members who made important contributions to the students' lives.