About 5,287 miles from Ithaca, near the banks of Ghana’s Volta River, a primary and junior high school for girls is rising from the collective imagination and brain power of the Cornell University Sustainable Design team.
Todd Walter, associate professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, has been appointed director of the New York State Water Resources Institute, effective July 1.
The Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team took home the top prize at the 17th Annual International RoboSub Competition, July 28-Aug. 3 in San Diego, Calif.
From studying smog along Beijing's streets to improving how interstate highways clear exhaust to electrifying New York City parking spaces, engineer Max Zhang adds verdancy to vibrant communities.
Anne Kenney, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, was regaled with an original haiku, a performance of a rewritten Doors song, gifts and a sustained standing ovation at her retirement party March 30.
Ten faculty-led projects are receiving approximately $170,000 in Internationalizing the Cornell Curriculum grants this year, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs has announced.
A Cornell engineering group has devised a method for allowing strain and tactile sensing in a soft prosthetic hand, through the use of stretchable optical waveguides.
Inspired by the color- and texture-morphing ability of octopuses, researchers have developed a way to transform with precision a 2-D stretchable sheet into a 3-D surface.
A team led by researchers from Cornell's Ithaca and New York City campuses has used a tool it developed to explain an immune system process. The work could benefit cancer research.