Collaboration reveals potential new therapy for osteoarthritis
Radical inter-campus, interdisciplinary collaboration reveals new insights into very early events that initiate disease. Read more
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Engineering student part of grand prize-winning team at 2018 Cornell Animal Health Hackathon
The owners of long-haired dogs have an unsavory problem that is not widely discussed, because, frankly, it’s kind of gross: Small clumps of feces get stuck in their dogs’ fur after the dogs defecate.A... Read more
Seven assistant professors win NSF early career awards
Meinig School Assistant Professor Mert Sabuncu is one of seven Cornell faculty members to receive a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award. Read more
Cornell, Nature Conservancy to study key climate projects
A new collaboration between the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and The Nature Conservancy this year will fund three studies that could be significant in the face of climate change. Read more
Certificate program develops product management skills
Cornell is now offering a Product Management certificate program, through eCornell, to give individuals the tools necessary for the successful navigation of a product’s lifecycle, from scoping stage to launch. Read more
Howarth appointed to New York’s new Climate Action Council
Robert Howarth has been appointed to the new Climate Action Council, created to bring about New York’s path to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions and support green energy. Read more
Satellite constellations harvest energy for near-total global coverage
A collaboration led by Patrick Reed has discovered the right combination of factors to enable a four-satellite constellation that maintains nearly continuous 24/7 coverage of almost every point on Earth. Read more
Nerve-healing startup Renerva joins McGovern incubator
Renerva, a medical startup developing an injectable gel to speed the healing of damaged nerves and creating a nerve-graft product, has joined Cornell’s McGovern Center. Read more
New publication introduces a circuits model for a proposed spin-based device
The paper is published in the IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits, which supports research in solid-state circuits using exploratory materials and devices for energy efficient computation beyond standard CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) technology. Physics Professor Daniel Ralph and ECE professors Debdeep Jena, Alyosha Molnar, Alyssa Apsel and Huili Grace Xing, along with undergraduate research assistant Felicia Guo, are co-authors. Afuye works in ECE Director Alyssa Apsel’s research group investigating new approaches to cost-effective... Read more
Telescope upgrade, move will aid in search for exoplanets
Dmitry Savransky, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is a co-investigator on a $2.6 million National Science Foundation grant aimed at the discovery of relatively young, large exoplanets. Read more
Dancing debris, moveable landscape shape Comet 67P
A comet once thought to be a quiet dirty snowball cruising through the solar system becomes quite active when seen up close. Read more