ECE team wins national AT&T SDN Network Design Challenge
A team of ECE researchers has won a national competition asking academics to envision more efficient, reliable designs for software-controlled network routing. Read more
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Singh honored as top young investigator by biomaterials society
Ankur Singh, assistant professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineer, will receive the 2017 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Biomaterials. Read more
Celebrating a valuable and beautiful infinity on Pi Day
Forbes: Monday is Pi Day — in the U.S., at least. People in Europe might find it strange that March 14 would be the designated day to celebrate a ratio cherished by mathematicians and circle lovers around the world, but that’s because Americans also write the date as 3/14, similar to the first three digits of pi. Read more
Unlocking the secrets of the brain's intelligence to develop smarter technologies
Phys.org: Of all the fast and powerful computers in the world, our brain remains by far the most impressive. Now an interdisciplinary team of scientists, led by Baylor College of Medicine, aims to reveal the computational building blocks of our brain and use them to create smarter learning machines. Read more
Sticky waves': Molecular interactions at the nanoscale
The wave-like behavior observed in electron cloud fluctuations challenges the widely held belief that van der Waals interactions, ubiquitous in the natural world, are particle-like in nature. Read more
Experts explain the biggest obstacles to creating human-like robots
Business Insider: Artificial intelligence (AI) became a scientific field almost 60 years ago. Ever since then, researchers have tried to achieve human-level smarts or better. Read more
Two women faculty receive inaugural Schwartz awards
Two researchers have received inaugural awards from the Schwartz Research Fund for Women in the Life Sciences, endowed by Joan Poyner Schwartz ’65 and Ronald H. Schwartz ’65. Read more
Harrison announces death of President Elizabeth Garrett
Robert S. Harrison ’76, chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees, sent the following message to the Cornell community March 7: Read more
Cornell looks to make PARADIM shift with $25M NSF grant
Cornell is leading the Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials... Read more
Light-up skin stretches boundaries of robotics
A Cornell team led by assistant professor Rob Shepherd and graduate student Bryan Peele has developed a stretchable electroluminescent skin with potential applications in soft robotics. Read more