Ken Birman receives Kanai award

Kenneth P. Birman, the N. Rama Rao Professor of Computer Science, has received the 2009 Tsutomu Kanai Award for his contributions to the state of the art in distributed computing systems. (March 2, 2010)

Studies show how fruit flies recover from aerial stumbles

Cornell researchers have shown exactly how fruit flies maneuver through the air, and how they keep stable even when a whoosh of wind knocks them off course.

Cornell-affiliated radio observatory in Peru receives continuing NSF funding

Cornell's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences has received $7.5 million from the National Science Foundation for the continuing support of the Jicamarca Radio Observatory near Lima, Peru. (March 1, 2010)

Play the PhotoCity game to build a 3-D CU model

To play PhotoCity, you have to get up from your computer and walk around campus. The game knits together still photos of an object taken from many angles to create a 3-D model of the Cornell campus. (Feb. 24, 2010)

National Academy of Engineering honors professors, trustee

Professors Thomas W. Parks and Stephen B. Pope have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering, and trustee N.R. Narayana Murthy has been elected a foreign associate. (Feb. 23, 2010)

Engineering professor Kenneth Torrance dies at 69

Torrance, the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, died suddenly Feb. 15 as the result of a heart attack. (Feb. 23, 2010)

CU's first-prize, student-built sub takes dip in Teagle pool

The Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team presented its robot Nova before an audience of students, team advisers and others on Feb. 21.

Park and Bindel are named Sloan fellows

Jiwoong Park, assistant professor of chemistry, and David Bindel, assistant professor of computer science, have been named 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows for outstanding early career success. (Feb. 22, 2010)

Ehsan Afshari receives early career award from NSF

The five-year, $400,000 award will fund Afshari's ongoing research into circuits that can generate signals at terahertz frequencies.