Six student teams tackling problems ranging from growing sustainable crops in the Amazon to subsidizing music lessons in Ithaca were awarded $22,500 to in this year’s Grand Challenges Impact Competition, April 17 in Warren Hall.
Applications are now open for Cornell’s new robotics doctoral program, which combines expertise across science and engineering, including mechanism design, modeling, dynamics, control, hardware, actuators, sensing, data science, machine learning, computing and social science.
The Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) is pleased to announce that Rich Knepper from the Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing has been elected as the new Chair of the organization.
Financial markets could help society achieve both prosperity and equity, but investment in efforts to address pressing social problems is still underfunded, according to a panel of Cornell faculty.
A massive multi-institution genomic survey of the Siberian husky has revealed that sled dogs descended from two distinct lineages of Arctic canids and originated in the northeastern Siberian Arctic generations earlier than previously thought.
When it comes to the U.S. elections, students are engaging with the ideas, conversing across difference and recognizing complexity - and are eager to vote, many for the first time.
Three Cornell undergraduates received Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards to honor their significant involvement in community engagement. Ariela Asllani ’26, David Ni’ 24 and Melody Welles ’27 each received a $2,500 prize towards projects that improve the lives of diverse local populations, including adopted and foster children, refugee students, and immigrants.
The resulting atlas advances basic research on the biology of the pancreas and could lead to new treatment strategies for diabetes and other pancreatic diseases.