Commercialization fellows help bring innovation to market

The Commercialization Fellowship, which wrapped up its fifth cohort in December 2020, helps engineers turn their academic research into businesses that solve real-world problems.

New Cornell Tech course helping cities reboot

Finding innovative solutions for cities’ most pressing problems is a primary goal of the new Urban Tech Hub, part of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.

Slow motion precursors give earthquakes the fast slip

Near the South Pole, a Cornell-led scientific team have found how slow-motion fault slips trigger distant, strong fast-slip earthquakes.

Agarwal, Rush, Tschida, Udell win Sloan Fellowships

Four early-career faculty members have won 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which support research and education related to science, technology, mathematics and economics.

Leaders valued over managers, regardless of fit

People tend to prefer prototypical leaders even in situations that call for prototypical managers, a bias that can be tempered by deliberative thinking, according to new Cornell research.

Cornellian’s website streamlines the vaccine appointment process

Olivia Adams ’14 M.Eng ’15 saw a problem: people in Massachusetts were having a difficult time signing up for COVID-19 vaccine appointments. So, she built a solution

Around Cornell

Arts and Sciences welcomes eight new Klarman Fellows

Eight exceptional early-career scholars in the sciences, social sciences and humanities will pursue independent research at Cornell as recipients of Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Raring to rove: Perseverance to land at Mars on Feb. 18

With Cornellian help, NASA's Mars 2020 mission’s Perseverance craft zips through space at 48,000 mph to our neighboring red planet. It is scheduled to land Feb. 18.

Want to hire more women? Expand your short list

New research has found that when considering candidates for a position in a male-dominated field, individuals consistently included more women on longer “short lists.”