From introducing reusable takeout containers to Cornell’s dining facilities to reducing laboratory dependence on fossil fuels, the President’s Awards for Employee Excellence celebrated these and other achievements Nov. 19 in Barton Hall.
The Information and Decision Science Laboratory is designing a better – and safer – future for transportation with the help of a 20-by-20-foot “smart” scaled city and a fleet of motorized cars, drones and virtual reality technology.
Using the “beneficiary pays” principle for new power infrastructure will encourage investment in the grid without causing disputes over cost-sharing, new research shows.
Systems engineering experts worldwide from academia, industry and government gathered Nov. 3-5 at Cornell to present research and exchange insights as part of the first annual Cornell Systems Summit.
Cornell scientists are developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of planets outside of our solar system, but also could demonstrate evidence of water on those exoplanets.
The garden - a collaboration between Onondaga Nation and Cornell Botanic Gardens - will enable Onondaga Nation School to incorporate more lessons from and about their own culture.
In person and online Nov. 9, thousands attended an interdisciplinary program of research presentations and music celebrated Carl Sagan’s legacy on what would have been his 90th birthday.
Applications are now open for Cornell’s new robotics doctoral program, which combines expertise across science and engineering, including mechanism design, modeling, dynamics, control, hardware, actuators, sensing, data science, machine learning, computing and social science.
A Cornell-led team will use a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a “microbe-mineral atlas,” a catalog of microorganisms and how they interact with minerals, key for mining critical metals used for generating sustainable energy.
The third cohort of Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows from Cornell will tackle critical scientific challenges in sustainability, the physical sciences and more.
Katherine Ruelan ’27, a five-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, is majoring in mechanical engineering and attending Cornell full time thanks to a number of resources, including the Cornell Veterans Engineering Scholarship.
