The northeastern United States enjoyed its warmest March in 118 years, beating out the previous warm-winter record set in 1945, according to Cornell Northeast Regional Climate Center. (April 13, 2012)
Emeritus professor Tobias de Boer, who taught mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell for more than 50 years and served as associate director of the Sibley School for nine years, died on May 2 at age 85.
Researchers from the College of Engineering and Weill Cornell Medicine will fight the spread of breast cancer and other cancers with a $9.3M, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute.
While some cities in the Northeast endured dry spells, nine cities broke their records for rain in April and May, reports Cornell's Northeast Regional Climate Center. (June 3, 2011)
Dr. Michael Satlin at Weill Cornell Medicine and Ilana Brito in Ithaca are researching how to fight drug-resistant bacteria – "superbugs" that threaten cancer patients' fragile immune systems.
Digital agriculture at Cornell has just been seeded for robust additional growth by being added as a strategic discipline area to the provost's radical collaboration initiative.
Years before COVID-19 turned into a global pandemic, biomolecular engineer Susan Daniel was already looking for ways to defeat it. Now she’s expanding her coronavirus studies, blending engineering with virology and data science.
Tucked away in the basement of Clark Hall are five staff members whose machining expertise is integral to the success of many of the designs, experiments and innovations of Cornell’s physics faculty, graduate students and postdocs, as well as to work done within other departments and units across campus.
The American Mathematical Society has honored 20 Cornell faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication and utilization of mathematics. (Nov. 6, 2012)