Six Cornell researchers will receive grants totaling more than
$3 million as part of the National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program.
The Runway Startup Postdoc Program – described as "part business school, part research institution, part startup incubator" – is designed to advance the participants' research and launch new business ventures.
Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School announced Oct. 27 the launch of a Master of Laws degree in law, technology and entrepreneurship at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City. Enrollment will begin in 2016.
Provost Michael Kotlikoff has called for proposals for feasibility and planning grants for academic programs that span the Ithaca and Cornell Tech campuses. The deadline to submit proposals is Jan. 22, 2016.
Elaine Runting Shi, associate professor of computer science, has won a 2015 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, which includes $875,000 over five years for research.
Éva Tardos, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science, has been named the new editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In the 2016 U.S. News and World Report rankings released today, Cornell University was ranked No. 15 among top national schools. The Dyson School and the College of Engineering both ranked in the top 10, respectively.
