A national effort to rethink how graduate students in science, technology, engineering and math fields are trained was the topic of a Feb. 14 American Association for the Advancement of Science panel that included remarks from Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell professor of science communication.
Cornell research has improved bike sharing in New York City, where a crowdsourcing system that makes real-time decisions helps make sure bikes are available when people need them.
Using white blood cells to ferry potent cancer-killing proteins through the bloodstream, Cornell researchers have confirmed a new way to kill metastatic cancer tumors.
Cornell University Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning received a $130,000 grant to prepare future STEM faculty to be great researchers and teachers.
Cornell's master of engineering with a financial engineering concentration was lauded by Advanced Trading magazine for the quality of its academic program and rate of job placement. (May 22, 2012)
Cornell researchers are engineering planar bacterial outer membrane-like supported bilayers, which have potential in the screening of antibiotics as well as cell-free and other applications.
After more than five years at the helm, Robert L. Brown will step down as director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center at Cornell, which manages the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. (Feb. 13, 2008)
A Weill Cornell Medical College study in Neurosurgery suggests that gender-specific genes and other epigenetic factors might influence the formation and development of pediatric brain cancers.
Max Zhang, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is the winner of the second annual Engaged Scholar Prize, which recognizes community-based teaching, learning and research.
Paul L. McEuen, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics and director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell, has been named director of the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics. (June 8, 2010)