Play the PhotoCity game to build a 3-D CU model

To play PhotoCity, you have to get up from your computer and walk around campus. The game knits together still photos of an object taken from many angles to create a 3-D model of the Cornell campus. (Feb. 24, 2010)

National Academy of Engineering honors professors, trustee

Professors Thomas W. Parks and Stephen B. Pope have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering, and trustee N.R. Narayana Murthy has been elected a foreign associate. (Feb. 23, 2010)

Engineering professor Kenneth Torrance dies at 69

Torrance, the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, died suddenly Feb. 15 as the result of a heart attack. (Feb. 23, 2010)

CU's first-prize, student-built sub takes dip in Teagle pool

The Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team presented its robot Nova before an audience of students, team advisers and others on Feb. 21.

Park and Bindel are named Sloan fellows

Jiwoong Park, assistant professor of chemistry, and David Bindel, assistant professor of computer science, have been named 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows for outstanding early career success. (Feb. 22, 2010)

Ehsan Afshari receives early career award from NSF

The five-year, $400,000 award will fund Afshari's ongoing research into circuits that can generate signals at terahertz frequencies.

Bill Gordon, father of Arecibo Observatory, dies at 92

Gordon was the Walter R. Reed Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cornell in 1958 when he began designing the radio telescope to study the Earth's upper atmosphere and nearby space.

Bits On Our Minds to showcase future of robotics

Students will display projects ranging from robotics to digital music to social media at the annual BOOM exhibition on March 3. (Feb. 18, 2010)

From the new dean: CIS has more legs to stand on

An interview with Dan Huttenlocher, the new dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, on the future of Cornell's Computing and Information Science programs. (Feb. 17, 2010)