Six student teams tackling problems ranging from growing sustainable crops in the Amazon to subsidizing music lessons in Ithaca were awarded $22,500 to in this year’s Grand Challenges Impact Competition, April 17 in Warren Hall.
The Brooks Tech Policy Institute has received $3 million from the Department of Defense to establish the U.S. Semiconductor Research Hub, which will assess and improve the resilience of the global network of semiconductor infrastructure.
The commitment, the largest in Cornell Engineering’s history, from David A. Duffield ’62, MBA ’64, will significantly expand the college’s existing Duffield Hall, creating a new state-of-the-art home for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
A Cornell professor’s election forecasting model correctly picked Trump’s win this year in all 50 states – and would have correctly predicted 95% of states in every election since 2000.
Nearly 500 staff, faculty, retirees and relatives gathered on campus March 29 for the annual Employee Celebration, enjoying athletic events, a community dinner and family-friendly activities.
A group of 34 earned their short white coats as the newest class in Weill Cornell Medicine’s Master of Science in Health Sciences for Physician Assistants program.
At a time when the U.S., and much of the world, seems bitterly divided, President Michael I. Kotlikoff offered graduates at Commencement, held May 24 at Schoellkopf Field, some historical perspective – and a reason to be proud: “At Cornell, we’ve tried very hard to maintain a house united.”
After installing floating solar panels on small ponds, researchers found that methane and carbon dioxide emissions increased by nearly 27% and dissolved oxygen substantially decreased.
Researchers identified several families of "jumping genes," or transposons, in cyanobacteria and Streptomyces that can find and insert themselves at the telomere, with benefits for the transposon and their bacterial host.