Doug James, associate professor of computer science, has received a Guggenheim fellowship to help support his research on computer sound synthesis. (April 18, 2011)
President David Skorton and Cornell Tech Dean and Vice Provost Dan Huttenlocher offered their views on research funding, new approaches and pressing challenges at a summit in New York City.
The National Science Foundation has selected the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility to be part of a newly established infrastructure. The facility will receive $8 million over five years.
The creation of a degree program called Healthier Life, designed to connect health care professionals and technologists, was announced Dec. 4 at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.
It doesn't happen often, but structures like bridges, airplanes and buildings do fail. What are the odds, and how can it be prevented? Cornell physicists are using computer modeling to find out. (Feb. 27, 2012)
Fifty-two high school junior and senior girls spent a week at the CURIE Academy at Cornell to examine engineering as a possible career, and to do some real engineering on their own.
Students will show off digital technology research projects at the annual BOOM (Bits On Our Minds) showcase, at the Duffield Hall Atrium on March 9 from 4 to 6 p.m. (Feb. 24, 2011)
Cornell engineers are adding their expertise in robot autonomy to the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a multi-year, international prize competition sponsored by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.