Twelve assistant professors from Cornell's Ithaca and New York City campuses have received five-year awards from the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development program.
The Faculty Award Program is a worldwide competition intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities and those in IBM research, development and service organizations. (Aug. 26, 2009)
Cornell will offer four new massive open online courses - or MOOCs - in 2016. Learn abouts sharks, GMOs, engineering simulations and how mergers and acquisitions get done.
Using sophisticated computer algorithms to check creditworthiness in seconds, a new service developed by former Cornell students lets people without a credit history buy what they need.
Imagine a version of Google Street View where you could hit the rewind button and see any point in time over the last five years. Cornell researchers are building something like that, at least for a few much-photographed places, such as 5Pointz in Queens, left.
How do organizations get workers onto the 'road less taken' when most people will choose the roads they know will pay off? Cornell researchers have found that incentives for trying something new may work.
Martha E. Pollack, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, was elected Cornell's 14th president. She will assume the presidency April 17, 2017.