Duffield receives Engineering’s highest alumni honor
Cornell’s College of Engineering presented David A. Duffield ’62, MBA ’64, with the inaugural Cornell Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award – its highest alumni honor.
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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....
Kan leads $1.5M grant to develop energy-conserving HVAC system
System could reduce energy usage by up to 30% using people-counting technology.
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W.E. Cornell program focuses on women engineers in STEM
A new training program for women entrepreneurs in STEM fields called W.E. Cornell launches this fall.
W.E. Cornell program focuses on women in STEM
A new training program for women entrepreneurs in STEM fields called W.E. Cornell launches this fall.
In historic shift, women comprise half of engineering undergrads
Particular gains have been made in computer science, where female students once comprised a fraction of the department. In 2017-18, women accounted for 38 percent of computer science majors, who come from both the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences. Among this year’s incoming engineering class, 55 percent of students indicating an interest in the field are women. Women are not only enrolling in engineering at Cornell, they’re succeeding. In the Class of 2018, men and women had average GPAs of 3.4, and the five-year graduation rate for both female and male...
Satellite startup Ursa raises $5.7M, promotes female leaders
Geospatial intelligence startup Ursa Space Systems, a Rev: Ithaca Startup Works member, raised $5.7 million in new venture funding and boasts gender parity among its leadership team.
Alumnus David Duffield to be honored by Engineering
Engineer and entrepreneur David A. Duffield ’62, MBA ’64, will be given the inaugural Cornell Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award Tuesday, Sept. 4.
In historic shift, women comprise half of engineering undergrads
The College of Engineering now enrolls equal numbers of undergraduate women and men, a historic shift after decades of underrepresentation in the field.
Physics theory used to predict crowd behavior
Researchers at Cornell have developed a highly accurate mathematical approach to predict the behavior of crowds of living creatures.
Groundwater loss prompts more California land sinking
Despite higher-than-normal amounts of rain in early 2017, the large agricultural and metropolitan communities that rely on groundwater in central California experienced only a short respite from an ongoing drought.
Just add sun: McGovern startup converts CO2 into fuel
A greenhouse gas may soon get a public relations makeover, as Cornell startup Dimensional Energy has developed a way to add sunlight to carbon dioxide to create an environmentally friendly fuel.