Physical Sciences & Engineering

Academic, industry leaders give advice on successful science careers

Students, faculty and staff got advice about managing a successful career in the sciences during the 2012 Empowering Women in Science and Engineering conference, May 20-21. (May 23, 2012)

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)

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.

Math department celebrates 50th year of topology festivals

An overflow crowd attended the math department's 50th Topology Festival, held May 4-7 on campus. (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)

Infrared LEDs can be made cheaper, compatible with silicon

Cornell researchers have advanced the process of making infrared light-emitting diodes cheaper and easier to fabricate.

Robots learn to pick up oddly shaped objects

Cornell researchers have created an algorithm to guide autonomous robots in grasping odd shapes. (May 8, 2012)