Campus is ready for some 3,830 first-year and transfer students will come to campus for Orientation 2014, Aug. 22-25, when dozens of events are scheduled to introduce them to university life.
The design methodology of a new IBM computer chip inspired by the human brain was pioneered by Cornell Tech’s Rajit Manohar. “After years of collaboration with IBM, we are now a step closer to building a computer similar to our brain,” Manohar said.
Corinna Loeckenhoff, associate professor of human development, is the 2014 recipient of the Baltes Foundation Award in Behavioral and Social Gerontology from The Gerontological Society of America.
Twenty-three Mexican undergraduates joined research labs at Cornell this summer as part of President Obama's 100,000 Strong Initiative, an effort to increase student exchanges with Latin America.
Three graduate students learned from faculty members Jed Sparks and Harry Greene how to teach field courses to undergraduates on a 10-day field course to Arizona.
When Yuri Orlov, professor of physics and government, celebrates his 90th birthday Aug. 13, he will be honored from Ithaca to Russia and across radio waves worldwide.
The student Punjabi dance team Cornell Bhangra performs in the quarterfinal round of "America's Got Talent" Aug. 12. The team is competing for a chance at a $1 million prize.
The Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team took home the top prize at the 17th Annual International RoboSub Competition, July 28-Aug. 3 in San Diego, Calif.