Cornell named a top 10 school for financial engineering

Cornell's master of engineering with a financial engineering concentration was lauded by Advanced Trading magazine for the quality of its academic program and rate of job placement. (May 22, 2012)

Business, politics, economics play key roles in sustainable development, say experts

Business, politics and economics play key roles in sustainable development, Cornell professors at a regional symposium of the National Academy of Engineering, May 16.

Cornell's NYC tech campus finds temporary home at Google

On May 21 Google CEO Larry Page, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President David Skorton announced Google's plan to provide initially 22,000 square feet of its Eighth Avenue building to Cornell free of charge.

A robot learns how to tidy up after you

Foreshadowing personal robots for the home, Cornell researchers have trained a robot to identify objects, pick them up and put them away.

Chris Schaffer to advise on science policy in D.C.

Schaffer will spend his sabbatical year as an Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow in September.

Reunion exhibition to feature Sputnik satellite, Enigma code-breaking machine

An exhibition running from June 7 to October on campus will feature an original Sputnik satellite, an Enigma WWII encoding/decoding machine and a Declaration of Independence facsimile.

Engineering symposium to address sustainability

An upcoming May 16 event will wed engineering and sustainability, as Cornell hosts a regional symposium of the National Academy of Engineering. (May 14, 2012)

Students share 'modbot' design for future Cornell Cup competitors

Cornell students exhibited their embedded design skills at the Cornell Cup USA by demonstrating modular robots and Rock Band-playing robots. (May 10, 2012)

Prescription drug identifier takes top prize at Cornell Cup

A device that uses image processing to instantly identify a prescription drug took top honors at the first Cornell Cup USA Presented by Intel, May 4-5. (May 10, 2012)