A collaboration between five colleges and a provost’s office investment of $2 million has led to a major revitalization of Cornell’s capabilities in flow cytometry, a vital part of cell research. Read more
Young participants explore the many different fields of biomedical engineering Read more
Around 80 faculty and instructors joined Provost Michael Kotlikoff and the vice provost for academic innovation April 18 for lunch and conversation about innovation in teaching at Cornell. Read more
One of the most successful fundraising events in Ithaca, Women Swimmin’, will now be one of the best-organized as well, thanks to optimization help from Cornell Engineering students. Read more
If you are a fan of logic problems, you have probably seen some variant on the classic challenge involving moving a group of people or items from one place to another in the most efficient way possible, given several constraints. Sometimes the challenge is framed as getting a group of people across a single-track footbridge where certain individuals can never be on the bridge together; sometimes it involves transporting animals across a river with a canoe, but certain animals can never be together on one side of the river without a human there. If you have seen these sorts of problems, then... Read more
The Internet-First University Press has released a complete directory of all available material as it works to make new and archival content more easily accessible. Read more
Sugar glycation was shown to stiffen and alter the architecture of tissue and promote breast tumor cell movement, pointing to a possible mechanical link between diabetes and metastatic cancer (image by Young Joon Suh). Read more
Kirstin Petersen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, presented art inspired by her research at the New Museum in New York City in a program that pairs artists with technologists and challenges them to create something new. Read more
Cornell students spent Earth Day outdoors at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., teaching patrons how to mold plastic in a different way – by reduction. Read more
The ExxonMobil Foundation has given Cornell $403,949 through its Educational Matching Gifts Program. Rob Crane ’92, new product platform manager at ExxonMobil Chemical, presented the check to Lance Collins, dean of the College of Engineering, during a campus visit on April 23, 2019. The grant is the result of a three-to-one match of donations to Cornell made in 2018 by ExxonMobil employees, retirees and surviving spouses, many of whom are Cornell alumni. In the past five years alone, ExxonMobil has given more than $2.5 million to Cornell through the program. The ExxonMobil Foundation reported... Read more
