Researchers from Cornell University, the University of Chicago and iRobot Corp. have created a versatile gripper using everyday ground coffee and a latex party balloon. (Oct. 25, 2010)
Cornell will host "Sustainability in Asia: Partnerships for Research and Implementation," a conference about sustainability research and community engagement in Hong Kong, April 6-7.
Cornell has accepted the invitation to join an elite national organization that aims to produce better university teachers in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. (Oct. 6, 2011)
A Cornell team finished second in the 2008 Association for Computing Machinery Regional Programming Contest, and one student on that team also has advanced to the finals of the Google Code Jam. (Nov. 4, 2008)
Thirty-three university staff members were recognized for earning academic degrees at the 23rd annual Staff Graduate Reception, May 20 in the Hall of Fame Room in Friends Hall.
The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative will host its last speaker of the fall semester, Basile Zimmermann, assistant professor of Chinese studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 16.
Researchers have devised a method of two-way radio communication that puts the separation of the transmitting and receiving signals all on a single transceiver chip.
The symposium, to take place Sept. 23-25 in Armonk, N.Y., will examine cloud computing, autonomous aerospace systems, engineering and music, and engineering inspired by biology. (June 29, 2010)