A group of Cornell students are working day and night to get their full-size, fuel-efficient, plug-in hybrid vehicle ready for on-road testing Sept. 1 in preparation for the Automotive X Prize Competition. (July 29, 2009)
Cornell University is offering the first and only Ph.D. program in apparel design in the United States. The program is intended to address the needs of academia, industry and research.
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A Cornell mini-conference on climate change was designed to build bridges across disciplines and departments, so faculty and staff could learn what others are doing and collaborate.
Biomedical engineering Ph.D. student George K. Lewis is making therapeutic ultrasound devices that are smaller, more powerful and many times less expensive than today's models. (Dec. 18, 2008)
Fewer than 4 percent of the nation's firefighters are women, and more than half of paid fire departments have never hired a female firefighter, finds a new report issued by the ILR School's Institute for Women and Work. (May 5, 2008)
Steven Chu, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize for 'development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light,' delivered the 2008 Hans A. Bethe lecture at Cornell April 16.
Assistant professor of physics Itai Cohen studies soft condensed matter, an example of which is human cartilage. One of his goals is to better understand the physics of how cartilage moves. (April 15, 2008)
The mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering Earth's atmosphere, says new Cornell research. (June 24, 2009)
President David Skorton tells national reporters that higher education, especially in science and math, must be looked at as a problem solver and not as a separate interest group.