On the eve of the Cornell Tech campus dedication, excitement was already building as guests gathered for a cocktail hour, art tours, live musical entertainment and a celebration dinner.
Members of Cornell NYC Tech's inaugural class were all attracted to the program's startup feel, and they all wanted to take part in a trailblazing master's degree program.
Researchers are using tiny sandwich structures of mirrors, called microcavities, to trap light and force it to interact with a layer of molecules, forming a new hybrid state that mixes light and matter. This process could lead to brighter, more efficient LEDs.
A team of three juniors won the Watson Academic Case Competition with their business concept 'Hello Watson,' which would replace humans in call centers with IBM's supercomputer. (Oct. 24, 2012)
To help launch the new Cornell Center for Immunology, world-renowned immunologist Mark Davis was in Ithaca to give a talk and meet faculty and students.
Eleven Cornell students worked all summer to move their businesses forward, thanks to the Marla and Barry ’90 Beck Entrepreneurship Fellows Program, which supports students in their entrepreneurial pursuits.
The Laboratory of Plasma Studies received a $15 million grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration and celebrates its 50th anniversary with a symposium Oct. 6-7.
President David Skorton and Cornell Tech Dean and Vice Provost Dan Huttenlocher offered their views on research funding, new approaches and pressing challenges at a summit in New York City.
A Cornell researcher, who is a leader in developing a new type of gene editing CRISPR system, and colleagues have used the new method for the first time in human cells – a major advance in the field.
Provost Kent Fuchs and Harry Greene, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Chuck Feeney '56 have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.