Score! Engineering startup wins NFL innovation competition

Cornell Engineering startup Organic Robotics Corporation and its stretchable sensing technology, Light Lace, topped a field of four finalists to win the sixth annual NFL 1st & Future competition, sponsored by the National Football League.

Cornell community can participate in COVID-19 research

Cornell leadership said in a statement that, beginning Feb. 4, faculty, staff and students will have the option of agreeing to allow COVID-19 testing data and samples to be used by Cornell researchers.

3MT: Skills Valuable Beyond Degree Conferral

In the Three Minute Thesis competition, graduate students compete for monetary prizes by distilling their thesis or dissertation research into a three-minute presentation in front of a non-technical audience.

Around Cornell

NYS farm outlook: scarce labor, higher wages in ’21

Richard Stup, agricultural workforce specialist, analyzed the key issues facing New York state farmers this year during Dyson's 2021 Agricultural and Food Business Outlook Conference, held virtually Jan. 25.

Cornell startup to compete in NFL innovation competition

Organic Robotics Corporation, a Cornell engineering startup founded in 2018, is in the finals the sixth annual NFL 1st & Future competition, airing Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. EST on the NFL Network.

Kavous Keshavarz, poultry nutrition expert, dies at 82

Kavous Keshavarz, professor emeritus in the Department of Animal Science and an expert in poultry nutrition, died Jan. 7 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was 82.

Pandemic reshaped ‘small world’ campus networks

The shift to hybrid instruction last fall made face-to-face enrollment networks on campus smaller, less connected and more fragmented, according to an analysis by Cornell sociologists.

Economist: U.S. poised for rebound with vaccines, stimulus

Steven Kyle offered his annual projection for the U.S. economy during Dyson’s 2021 Agricultural and Food Business Outlook Conference, held virtually Jan. 25.

CTI online course on diverse classroom honored

An online course offered by the Center for Teaching Innovation to support instructors in designing and sustaining inclusive learning environments has been recognized by a national higher-education organization.