Marc Lacey ’87, national editor for The New York Times, will be the inaugural fellow in the Distinguished Visiting Journalist Program, launching next semester in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Internationally renowned physicist, human rights champion and Soviet-era dissident Yuri Orlov, professor emeritus of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Sept. 27 in Ithaca. He was 96.
Cornell researchers installed electronic “brains” on solar-powered robots that are 100 to 250 micrometers in size, so the tiny bots can walk autonomously without being externally controlled.
Six of the world’s most promising early-career scholars are recipients of the inaugural three-year Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships, in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences.
The chapter, "AI and International Politics," is a broad look at the opportunities and risks that the proliferation of AI technology holds for international politics.
For the past year, Cornell doctoral students Megan Barrington and Christian Tate have been living, thinking and working on the red planet Mars, digitally commuting from our own blue world.
To prep for missions to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, Britney Schmidt, associate professor of astronomy and earth and atmospheric sciences, is studying Antarctica’s ice and oceans.
In a new pilot run by Cornell and NYSEG, participants will pay a flat rate for their electricity bill and use an app that provides information about how to reduce electricity use and costs.
Amartya Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will give the annual Bartels World Affairs Lecture on May 5.
Jessica Levin Martinez, head of the Division of Academic and Public Programs at the Harvard Art Museums, has been appointed director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, beginning July 15.