Women are underrepresented in math-intensive careers not because they lack good math ability, but because they prefer other careers with more flexibility to raise children, says a new Cornell study. (March 11, 2009)
The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation has committed $3 million for the new Marriott Student Learning Center in the School of Hotel Administration. (Sept. 26, 2011)
Actress Jennifer Harmon, 71, is mentoring Weill Cornell medical students and sharing experiences as a patient through the Longitudinal Educational Experience Advancing Patient Partnerships program.
Science Spectrum magazine has named the top minorities in science for 2005, which includes two Cornell researchers: Kevin T. Kornegay, Cornell associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of Cornell Broadband Communications Research laboratory, and Lisa Staiano-Coico, dean of the College of Human Ecology.
In its 2012 rankings, U.S. News and World Report ranks Cornell second in engineering science/engineering physics programs and fourth among biological/agricultural engineering programs. (Sept. 13, 2011)
Grape growers and food processors benefit from water sensors for accurate moisture readings. Cornell researchers have developed a fingertip-sized sensor that is a hundred times more sensitive than current devices, and they hope to produce it for as little as $5 each.
Two teams of Cornell University graduate students in the university's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have finished in third and fourth place in phase one of a nationwide integrated circuit-design contest sponsored by the Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC). Both teams will move on to a second phase of the contest, in which the chips they designed will be fabricated by IBM and returned to the students for testing and evaluation. The will be to demonstrate that the l chips work as predicted. The winners of the contest will be announced in July. (February 28, 2003)
New technology being developed at Cornell could bring multimedia communications to your desktop computer a lot sooner -- and at a much lower cost -- than anyone expected.