Business competitions highlight student ideas

Would-be student entrepreneurs from across campus are spending some of their spring break polishing their pitches for the Big Idea Competition.

Celebration draws Cornellian business leaders April 14-15

More than 700 alumni, parents, students, faculty and staff are expected to attend Celebration, Entrepreneurship at Cornell's annual business conference, April 14-15 on campus.

Engaged Cornell graduate grants fund 10 Ph.D. students

Engaged Cornell has awarded its first Engaged Graduate Student Grants to 10 doctoral students, who are working with community and commercial partners on research projects for their dissertations.

Pre-Seed Workshop helps turn scientists into entrepreneurs

The Pre-Seed Workshop, sponsored by the Cornell Center for Life Science Enterprise, offers scientists guidance on how to move their technologies and inventions from the lab to the marketplace.

Cancer cells' ability to self-repair may spawn new treatments

A Cornell research group led by associate professor Jan Lammerding is studying how cancer cells' ability to repair themselves after deformation could lead to new approaches in diagnosis and treatment.

Metal-foam hybrid has potential in soft robotics, aeronautics

The lab of engineering professor Rob Shepherd has developed a hybrid material featuring soft metal and porous elastic polymer foam that could be used to make a morphing airplane wing.

Enzyme inhibitor looks promising against cancer

A Cornell multi-site research team has developed a chemical compound that shows promise as a oncoprotein inhibitor with broad anti-cancer activity and little effect on non-cancerous cells.

Engineering Simulation MOOC teaches pro skills

Cornell’s newest MOOC will give thousands of students worldwide an opportunity to learn skills that are regularly taught to the university's undergraduate engineering students on campus.

'Sticky waves': Molecular interactions at the nanoscale

The wave-like behavior observed in electron cloud fluctuations challenges the widely held belief that van der Waals interactions, ubiquitous in the natural world, are particle-like in nature.