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Huffington Post: Answers by Thorsten Joachims, Professor at Cornell University working on Machine Learning from Human Behavior. Read more
Huffington Post: Answers by Thorsten Joachims, Professor at Cornell University working on Machine Learning from Human Behavior. Read more
The CAREER award is the most prestigious recognition given by the NSF to faculty members early in their academic careers. Read more
WSJ: Republicans on the House Transportation Committee, despite escalating global concerns over the dangers of transporting lithium batteries by air, rejected provisions intended to give Congress greater leeway to further restrict or ban such cargo. Read more
Five Cornell assistant professors have been honored by the National Science Foundation with Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards, with funding totaling more than $2.5 million. Read more
A Cornell team led by Lynden Archer, head of the Department of Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering, has engineered a lithium metal battery based on crosslinked hairy nanoparticles. Read more
A combined $50 million commitment from Robert F. Smith '85, founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, and the foundation of which he is a founding director will support chemical and biomolecular engineering and African-American and female students in engineering in Ithaca and at Cornell Tech. Read more
Cornell faculty and students will be among thousands of scientists representing an array of research to swarm Washington, D.C., Feb. 11-15 for the annual AAAS meeting and exposition. Read more
Two Cornell Engineering faculty have been named to a list of the world's most influential scientific minds for 2015 compiled by Thompson Reuters and based on how often faculty members' research is cited. Read more
Bloomberg Business: Cornell University’s trustees are planning to discuss divesting from fossil fuels, an issue that many of the richest U.S. schools have grappled with while only a few have taken action to purge their endowments of oil, gas and coal company stocks. Read more
A Cornell team has created the first self-assembled three-dimensional superconductor, another step toward creation of a material that could act as a superconductor at or above room temperature. Read more