Cornell's advanced degree program in biological sciences jumped from 14th in the nation to seventh in U.S. News and World Report's 'America's Best Graduate Schools 2007' annual report. (May 4, 2006)
Cornell’s network of business incubators and accelerators have developed into a growing and robust entrepreneurial engine nurtured with resources, training and mentorship that help faculty, research staff and graduate students launch marketable ideas and technologies.
Kevin Kornegay, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell, has been named Black Engineer of the Year in the category of Promotion of Higher Education.
Cornell officially strengthened its already sizable New York City presence Sept. 13 with the dedication of the glittering, futuristic Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island.
If you are still sore about last week's United States quarterfinal loss to Germany in World Cup soccer in South Korea, don't be. On June 23 on behalf of Americans everywhere, Cornell students got revenge, beating the Freie Universität (FU) Fighters of Berlin, 7-3.
Four research projects at Cornell University have been selected to receive a total of $1.1 million in Department of Defense (DoD) grants under the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program and the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). The research project leaders are Kenneth Birman, professor of computer science; Lang Tong, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering; Matthew Miller, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; and Stephen Pope, the Sibley College Professor of Mechanical Engineering. (March 27, 2003)
Bill Gates sees a future in which technology manages all our information for us, with devices at work, at home and in our pockets all seamlessly linked. The hardware is already here or coming soon, he says, but the challenge is to create the software. And, he said in a campus visit Feb. 26, he needs today's college students to produce it.
After a barn-burner semi-final match against Singapore, Cornell's Big Red team beat a tough German team to take first place in the Small Robots League in Robocup in Melbourne, Australia.
Cornell University President Hunter R. Rawlings will be heading to China Nov. 14 for a four-day trip to Beijing. He plans to sign an official partnership agreement with Peking University (formalizing Cornell's newest academic major, China and Asia-Pacific studies), deliver a keynote address at the 2005 Beijing Forum and participate in an engineering workshop with Tsinghua University. (November 07, 2005)