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We learned today that the IEEE Board of Directors elevated Professors Alyssa Apsel and Aaron Wagner to IEEE Fellows. Alyssa Apsel was recognized for her contributions to radio frequency and optical communications circuits and systems, while Aaron Wagner was recognized for contributions to distributed data compression. Alyssa Apsel, director of Cornell ECE, focuses her research ion power-aware mixed signal circuits and design for highly scaled CMOS and modern electronic systems. She is currently working on low power radio for IoT and reconfigurable multi-standard radio to extend the reach of... Read more

Cornell engineering students are working with an Ithaca, New York, engineering firm to help New York City lower its carbon footprint. Read more

New research from a team of Computing and Information Science scholars raises questions about hiring algorithms and the tech companies who develop and use them. Read more

For the colorful, graceful sea fans swaying among the coral reefs in the waters around Puerto Rico, copper is an emerging threat in an era of warming oceans, according to new Cornell research. Read more

University leaders and trustees on Nov. 18 honored 15 individuals and three teams with President’s Awards for Employee Excellence, and the inaugural Trustee Award for Excellence. Read more

Cornell faculty and students joined industry researchers to discuss the present and future of robotics during the full-day workshop “Embracing the Messy World: Robotics at Cornell,” hosted in Upson Hall on Nov. 8. Read more

Four undergraduates recently presented their research – conducted with the help of equipment donations from Facebook – at a major conference on computer vision. Read more

Urbano, a free software recently launched by Cornell researchers, employs data and metrics to help urban planners add walkability features to their designs. Read more

Cornell’s Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society, launching this fall and led by David Shmoys, will enhance research in the increasingly important field of data science. Read more