Cornell leaders are developing tech campus programs under interdisciplinary domains, or hubs, rather than using the traditional university organization of colleges, schools and departments.
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.
Weill Cornell Medicine announced May 26 that it has been awarded a Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Grant to enable scientists to develop maps of 54 cities.
Awards from the New York Academy of Sciences recognize innovative young scientists and engineers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. (Nov. 16, 2011)
Cornell researchers led by Alyssa Apsel, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, are sharing a $685,000 Department of Energy grant to design power supplies for multicore systems. (June 8, 2010)
A gift and a grant totaling $3.45 million will help the Cornell Lab of Ornithology develop new computer technologies to better understand the movements and behaviors of birds and other species. (Oct. 13, 2011)
A team of Cornell researchers and scientists focused on pain management has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Left in an attic and missing for decades, the long-lost Vincent van Gogh painting – “Sunset at Montmajour” – was authenticated by in September. Art historians identified the work, in part, thanks to a Cornell-developed engineering technique based on a canvas weave map.
Female influencers on Instagram endure criticism and harassment both for being too honest about their lives and for seeming too fake, a new Cornell study has found.
Cornell researchers are developing computer software to detect phony positive reviews created by sellers to help sell their products, or negative reviews meant to downgrade competitors. (July 25, 2011)