News Archive for March 2011
Student Engineers Build Water Treatment Plants in Honduras
The Cornell Daily Sun: To help local populations in Honduras secure clean water, the student engineering team AguaClara is working to develop three water treatment plants in the country — an... read more
18 and away
The Times of India: ...Indians heading abroad to study are younger than ever before. Typically, they are 18 and fresh out of school. read more
Applying Biological Principles in Designing Robots of the Future
USA Science and Engineering Festival: Hod Lipson is noted for bringing biologically-inspired approaches to the study of robotics - all in an effort to answer what he believes to be two great... read more
Undercover Boss: Bill Massa '82 EE
TVGrapevine.com: The boss of Synagro, the nation's largest waste water treatment corporation, embarks on the dirtiest undercover mission yet, on "Undercover Boss" March 27. read more
Amit Lal video: The pros and cons of proliferating sensors -- where are we headed?
SPIE: While our sensing capabilities have expanded rapidly, so have the questions about what we do with all that data. read more
DARPA Expands Robotics Program
InformationWeek: Cornell is part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's new Maximum Mobility and Manipulation Program, an effort to use engineering, better design tools, fabrication... read more
Health Information Technology "Control Tower" Could Improve Earthquake Response
HealthNewsDigest.com: A new study published by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College read more
Local community reacts, waits to learn fate of disaster victims
Twin Cities Daily Planet: Bingham Cady, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University, said Iodine 131 is the worst environmental actor emitting from the four stricken... read more
Student Satellite 'Violet' Wins Award From Air Force
A satellite designed and constructed by Cornell students placed second in the United States Air Force Research Lab’s sixth University Nanosat Program in January. read more
Phoenix Confident in Underdog Role
The Cornell Daily Sun: Although Friday’s festivities may be labeled “Dragon Day,” another creature lurks in the campus foreground. read more
Japan's 'black swan': Scientists ponder the unparalleled dangers of unlikely disasters
the Washington Post: The disaster bureaucrats talk about black swans: calamities from out of the blue, terrible and strange. The world is now transfixed by the black swan disaster of Japan — an... read more
An earthquake's effects on geography
YNN: In addition to the devastating effects of the earthquake in Japan, the event also had implications globally. The fifth largest earthquake in recorded history moved the country and even the... read more
Samoan lineman Togiaso '15 tackles engineering
The San Diego Union-Tribune: In the attempt to give their Division I football program extra appeal to Fiaalii “Junior” Togiaso, a senior lineman at La Jolla Country Day School, recruiters... read more
Experts: U.S. won't feel health effects from Japan
CNN: The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, which has suffered numerous fires, explosions and subsequent radiation leaks since Friday's earthquake, could get worse, and just... read more
Tsunami to hit U.S. too?
msnbc: Cornell Engineering's Phil Liu explains that the unpredictability of tsunamis supports evacuation of low lying areas of the West Coast in the immediate aftermath of the Japanese disaster. read more
New Zealand earthquake has lessons for urban centres
Daily Commercial News: The 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand on Feb. 22 demonstrates the vulnerability of urban centres with important lessons for the United States, says... read more
