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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

Like high-frequency traders on Wall Street, a growing army of bots exploit inefficiencies in decentralized exchanges, which are places where users buy, sell or trade cryptocurrency independent of a central authority, a Cornell Tech study has found. Read more

At the annual BOOM (Bits on Our Minds) showcase April 24 in Duffield Hall, more than 200 students used technology to try to solve problems large and small, local and international, for entertainment, convenience, increased equity or social good. Read more

The Institute for the Social Sciences has awarded 12 small grants to social science researchers in six colleges and schools at Cornell. The awards assist scholars as they develop new research and seek external funding. Read more

William S. Nye ’77 – known to millions as Bill Nye the Science Guy – will speak at Senior Convocation Saturday, May 25, at 12:30 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field during Cornell’s 2019 Graduation Weekend. Read more