Computer science researchers will use Google Glass to coach wearers on nonverbal behavior, and 3-D scans to create computer images of soft, deformable objects.
A $6 million federal grant will give a high-tech boost to Cornell research and by developing and implementing digital mapping technology to aid grape growers who produce juice, wine and table grapes.
Celebrating its 20th year, Cornell's Survey Research Institute continues to further its mission of collecting quality data for research projects at the state, national and global levels.
To help improve content on women and the arts on Wikipedia and narrow that gender gap, Cornell will participate in the 2016 Wikipedia: Art + Feminism edit-a-thon, March 5.
Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $9 million Program Project Grant from the National Cancer Institute to study an aggressive and incurable form of lymphoma.
Scientists announced this week that a consortium led by Cornell will begin construction in Chile's Atacama Desert of a powerful telescope capable of mapping the sky at submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths.
A vigil for Nicholas Kau, a student who died Jan. 10 in New York City, will be held Jan. 16 in Manhattan, and funeral services will be Jan. 17. A campus memorial service is being planned for next week. (Jan. 15, 2009)
More than 100 students, staff and senior administrators joined Professor Robin L. Davisson, Nov. 23, to surprise President David J. Skorton with wishes for a happy 60th birthday. (Nov. 24, 2009)
Steven Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor of Music Emeritus, has died. The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and founder of Ensemble X mentored emerging composers for decades at Cornell.
Almost 100 people gathered Sept. 19 to kick off a yearlong conversation, "Freedom Interrupted: Race, Gender, Nation and Policing," an interdisciplinary cross-campus collaboration.