Work with Google to boost social network productivity

Cornell researchers will collaborate with Google experts to improve group interaction in online social networks. The work will be supported by a grant of $800,000 from Google Inc. (Feb. 21, 2011)

Self-correcting robots, at-home 3-D printing are on horizon, says Lipson at AAAS

Robots that self-improve and machines that print products at home are technologies on the horizon, said Hod Lipson at the 2011 American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. (Feb. 21, 2011)

Students to present Triple Helix articles at AAAS

Four Cornell undergraduates will showcase their scholarly articles at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, Feb. 17-21 in Washington, D.C. (Feb. 18, 2011)

Microsoft fellowship supports advertising auctions research

Computer science graduate student Renato Paes Leme has been awarded a Microsoft Research Fellowship to pursue research that may make online advertising a bit more efficient and profitable. (Feb. 16, 2011)

Notice math all around; 'it really is beautiful,' says Strogatz

Cornell Cooperative Extension is training Fort Drum soldiers in ways to help Afghan farmers, including how to fight wheat rust - dubbed the 'H1N1 of the wheat world.' (Feb. 14, 2011)

Fred Schneider elected to National Academy of Engineering

New students entering Cornell in the fall will read and discuss E.L. Doctorow's 'Homer and Langley,' a 2009 historical novel based on the lives of New York City's reclusive Collyer brothers. (Feb. 10, 2011)

AguaClara to bring more water treatment plants to Honduras

A committee of City of Ithaca and Cornell stakeholders met Feb. 7 to review preliminary conceptual options to potentially improve the safety of bridges spanning high gorges. (Feb. 9, 2011)

Choices -- not discrimination -- determine women scientists' success, researchers say

Graduate student Erik Patel has traveled 15 times to Madagascar in his quest to study the rare silky sifaka lemur and as director of a nonprofit he founded to protect the snowy white creatures. (Feb. 7, 2011)

Four N.Y. companies receive JumpStart grants

It's not discrimination, but rather differences in resources attributable to career and family-related choices that set women back in science fields, Cornell researchers say. (Feb. 7, 2011)