Physics major Eyvind Niklasson '17 has made both Google and Facebook’s lists of helpful “pentesters,” kinder, gentler hackers who have reported vulnerabilities in their systems.
Mike Kelley, professor of electrical engineering at Cornell, has been named to the new position of associate dean for professional development in the College of Engineering.
Gerald 'Gerry' Smith Thomas, Ph.D. '78, died of complications of Alzheimer's disease Aug. 16 in Ithaca. He was 75. A celebration of his life will take place Aug. 27 at 2 p.m. in Sage Chapel. (Aug. 22, 2011)
The Freeman Foundation has awarded Cornell a new grant that will enhance language instruction in Chinese and Korean on campus and support the China and Asia-Pacific Studies major. (Oct. 21, 2008)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Frederick A. Rogers, Cornell's senior vice president and chief financial officer, announced Dec. 9, 1999 that he will be stepping down from that position to assume the presidency of a new Internet company that will serve the education community.
The discovery of a 100-million-year old bee embedded in amber - perhaps the oldest bee ever found - 'pushes the bee fossil record back about 35 million years,' according to Bryan Danforth.
With New England leading the way, April showers brought 133 percent of the Northeast's normal precipitation, making it the 10th wettest April in 102 years of records, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
A gift of $35 million from Andrew and Ann Tisch will establish the Tisch University Professorships to honor current faculty and recruit the most talented young scholars from around the world. (Sept. 26, 2008)
Rendering some of the world’s toxic soils moot, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Cornell researchers are learning to grow stress-tolerant crops on formerly non-farmable land.
The editors of R&D Magazine and MicroNano Newsletter have selected DNA buckyballs created by Dan Luo, Cornell assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering, as one of the 25 "most innovative products of 2006…