To spur local job creation, New York state Sen. Michael Nozzolio has secured $3.4 million in state funding to help food entrepreneurs at the agricultural experiment station in Geneva, New York.
Two Cornell Tech master's graduates have won a World Congress on Information Technology award for their computer-vision invention, Uru, which projects advertising onto blank surfaces in a video.
A $1.7 million NIH grant will be used to better understand why teens are prone to taking risks. The study will use an MRI to compare brains of teens and adults when faced with risky decisions.
Cornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes has been named the first trustee emeritus of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. He was instrumental in the founding of that university. (Jan. 9, 2012)
National and regional biofuel, biopower and bioproducts experts will convene in Syracuse for the Northeast Sun Grant 2010 Regional Conference, hosted by Cornell, May 24-26. (May 10, 2010)
Robert Fitzpatrick, dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, who will be the keynote speaker at the Cornell symposium "Creating Minds: Artistic Intelligence Across the Disciplines" to be held Feb. 28 and March 1.
Cornell University Library is offering an internship program that aims to expose Cornell graduate students to new frontiers in digital humanities work.
An international high-energy physics collaboration that could provide the deepest glimpse yet into the nature of the elusive subatomic particle known as the muon is receiving key insights and expertise from Cornell scientists.
To better understand avant-garde theater, cinema and the new electronic and digital art forms, we need to peer into the past, says Cornell University Professor of English Timothy Murray. By re-examining the representations of race, gender, sexuality and power in Shakespeare and other early modern works, we can understand the fascination of contemporary artists and playwrights with early modern theater and art.
Cornell Junior Bryan J. Lowrance, a Presidential Research Scholar and College Scholar majoring in English and classics, has been named one of 18 Beinecke Scholarship winners nationwide for 2005.