A busload of New York City high school students hit pause on city life to visit Cornell’s Ithaca campus, as part of a summer program that’s equipping the next generation of technical entrepreneurs.
As faculty hiring seasons swings into full force, Provost Michael Kotlikoff has committed funding to help bring superior diverse talent to the faculty, allowing departments to recruit more aggressively.
Thirty-seven students from Latin America have been working with research faculty on campus as part of CienciAmerica, an eight-week summer program at Cornell.
By unplugging equipment, turning off lights and shutting down computers before leaving for winter break in December, the campus community saved 3,200 kilowatts over the 10-day break.
Physicists have demonstrated the application of kirigami on 10-micron sheets of graphene, which they can cut, fold and twist. The research could pave the way for some of the smallest machines the world has ever known.
The New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation has awarded grants of about $750,000 each to Matthew DeLisa, Dan Luo and Johannes Gehrke, to pursue high-tech research with commercial potential. (Aug. 30, 2007)
Children in elementary schools may be placed at risk by computer workstations that have been designed with little or no regard for musculoskeletal development, according to a Cornell University study.
Alyssa Apsel envisions next-generation circuits to have shrunk to the most infinitesimal of length scales, but with higher efficiency and more predictable properties. (Aug. 6, 2008)
The third time was indeed the charm for Interim President Hunter Rawlings and his wife, Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings, who were feted with a celebratory reception and dinner March 23 by the Cornell Board of Trustees.
Diversity in engineering is not just about fairness, but about creativity, according to Wm. [William] A. Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering, who will visit the Cornell campus to deliver two lectures on April 11 and 12.