Cornell Silicon Valley event tackles 'designing the future'

Some 500 people gathered for Cornell Silicon Valley's March 14 event to hear about designing for the future. It featured 20 speakers, including Cornell President David Skorton. (March 19, 2012)

U.S. News ranks seven Cornell engineering grad specialties in top 10

For the third year running, U.S. News and World Report ranked Cornell's graduate engineering, overall, as the 10th best in the nation. (March 15, 2012)

Michael King leads journal on nanotechnology in medicine

Michael R. King, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is editor-in-chief of a new scientific journal focused on nanotubes, nanorods and nanowires applied to medicine and biology. (March 12, 2012)

DNANO Systems moves protein-expression business to McGovern Center

Cornell's biotechnology business incubator has just welcomed another client: DNANO Systems LLC. (March 8, 2012)

Professor emeritus Terrill A. Cool dies at age 75

Terrill A. Cool, professor emeritus of applied and engineering physics, died March 5. (March 7, 2012)

Student instructors go to the dogs -- and learn to mush

Four undergraduates and two staff leaders spent a week dogsledding, camping and skiing in northern Minnesota on a Cornell Outdoor Education trip in early January. (March 7, 2012)

Ten on faculty receive NSF CAREER awards

The National Science Foundation-funded awards support early-career development activities of teacher-scholars. (March 6, 2012)

Researchers challenge study on hydrofracking's gas footprint

A Cornell study's contention that hydraulic fracturing would be worse for climate change than burning coal is being challenged by another study, also by Cornell researchers. (March 2, 2012)

Six firms shortlisted for design of tech campus building

Cornell University announced today the shortlist of six renowned architectural firms for the planned CornellNYC Tech campus's core academic building on Roosevelt Island. (Feb. 27, 2012)