Engineering

Cornell's JumpStart program chooses four New York small businesses for collaborations

Four small businesses will collaborate with Cornell Center for Materials Research scientists to improve their products. (Jan. 14, 2010)

Fred Schneider named to Defense Science Board

The Department of Defense has announced the appointment of Cornell computer security expert Fred Schneider to its Defense Science Board.

Huttenlocher tapped for MacArthur Foundation Board

Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, has been named to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Board of Directors.

CU deploys experimental TeraGrid resource for MATLAB

The Cornell Center for Advanced computing has deployed A 512-core parallel cluster running the scientific language MATLAB as an experimental resource on the TeraGrid. (Jan. 7, 2010)

Stimulus funding to help search engines learn on the job

New research aims to create search-engine software that can learn from users by noticing which links they click and how they reformulate their queries when the first results don't pay off. (Jan. 7, 2010)

Student group travels to India for cultural experience

Students in the Minority Organization of Architecture, Art and Planning are engaged in field study and cultural immersion on a winter break trip to India.

Small grants awarded to social scientists

The Institute for the Social Sciences has announced the recipients of its biannual small grant award for interdisciplinary research and conference support. (Dec. 21, 2009)

Graduates, families celebrate at winter commencement

Some 360 degree candidates attended winter commencement Dec. 19 in Barton Hall, along with 2,000 cheering friends and family members. (Dec. 21, 2009)

Cornellians work to predict climate change

Researchers are contributing to a new model of climate change that may give more accurate predictions of the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in Earth's future. (Dec. 18, 2009)