Four on faculty receive NIH high-risk, high-reward awards
Meinig School faculty Brito and De Vlaminck win prestigious award. Read more
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Making big data serve the little guy
Big data is a hot topic in computer science. It’s also big business. Read more
Pumpkin prank perpetrator puzzle persists 20 years later
On the brisk autumn morning of Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1997, Cornell students, faculty and staff strolling by McGraw Tower noted an unusual sight: a large pumpkin impaled on the spire 173 feet up. The question remains: Whodunit? Read more
Cornell Commitment interns reflect on summer experiences
About 30 students from the Cornell Commitment office – Meinig scholars, Rawlings research scholars and Cornell Tradition fellows – presented posters and panel discussions Sept. 27. Read more
Lab of Plasma Studies turns 50, wins $15M grant
Cornell’s Laboratory of Plasma Studies (LPS) has much to celebrate as it marks its 50th anniversary with a two-day symposium, Oct. 6-7, and begins another five years of unlocking the secrets of plasma with a $15 million grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration. Read more
Internet Advertising: Technology, Ethics, and a Serious Difference of Opinion
Prof. Stephen Wicker discusses "Internet Advertising: Technology, Ethics, and a Serious Difference of Opinion" in this video based on a review article in the October 2017 issue of Communications of the ACM Read more
Cornell Tech leverages academic links with Cornell campuses
The new Roosevelt Island campus of Cornell Tech has catalyzed a slew of innovative academic programs. Read more
Molnar and Alumni win Best Paper Award
Cornell Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Alyosha (Al) Molnar and several former students recently received the 2017 IEEE Sensors Journal Best Paper Award for their paper, “A Polar Symmetric CMOS Image Sensor for Rotation Invariant Measurement.” His co-authors include Sriram Sivaramakrishnan, Ph.D. ’15, Changhyuk Lee, Ph.D. ’14, Ben Johnson, Ph.D. ’14. Read more