Engaged Graduate Student Grants fund 16 Ph.D. students

Sixteen Cornell doctoral students will collaborate with community partners from Ithaca to India on research projects supported by 2017 Engaged Graduate Student Grants.

Grants enable graduate student travel to 47 nations

Ninety-eight Cornell graduate and professional students will travel to 47 countries over the next year with support from the Einaudi Center's International Travel Grant Program.

Be careful what you tell your robot to do, expert warns

Artificial intelligence must be managed in ways that keep robots from doing harm accidentally, according to Daniel Weld, professor of computer science at the University of Washington.

Group works toward devising next-gen superconductor

A team led by physics associate professor Eun-Ah Kim has proposed a topological superconductor made from an ultrathin transition metal dichalcogenide that is a step toward quantum computing.

Baptist, Hutchinson awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Professor of history Edward Baptist and assistant professor of English Ishion Hutchinson are among the newest Guggenheim Fellowship recipients named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Playwright Paula Vogel honored for LGBT activism

Paula Vogel's long and winding road from Ithaca in the 1970s to Broadway in 2017 was revisited April 8 in Manhattan where she was honored with the third annual Steven W. Siegel Award.

New book examines the genomics revolution

In his new book, “Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution,” Stephen Hilgartner examines how the governance and control of knowledge changed during the Human Genome Project.

Alum producer of 'Stranger Things,' 'Arrival' to lecture

Dan Cohen '05, producer of the sci-fi movie 'Arrival' and the hit Netflix series 'Stranger Things,' will talk with students about his career April 21.

Researchers link robots into surveillance teams

Researchers are developing a system to enable teams of robots to share information as they move around and if necessary get help in interpreting what they see, enabling them to conduct surveillance as a single entity with many eyes.