Spotlights

For most of Natalie Dawley’s high school years, she assumed a career in foreign policy was awaiting her after college. “I loved learning and speaking French; I even spent a semester in France in high...

While engineers have had success building tiny, insect-like robots, programming them to behave autonomously like real insects continues to present technical challenges. A group of Cornell engineers...

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Ithaca, New York, October 15, 2013 ,-- The nation’s top semiconductor scholars and industry veterans came together for the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) 15 th Annual TECHCON conference held...

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/04/exxonmobil-foundation-gives-467000-cornell

Liz Wayne '15 Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering Liz Wayne Ph.D. ’15 BME says she majored in physics as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania because she wanted to understand the world around...

Yonn Rasmussen '83, '86 MS, '89 Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering If you were to draw a circle centered on Gaithersburg, MD and having a radius equivalent to a six-hour drive from that center,...

Paul Osenar '92 Materials Science Raising money to get a tech start-up off the ground is never an easy proposition. The odds are generally not in your favor and you need a bit of luck. A good rule of...

Jen Weidman '13 Environmental Engineering For many students and parents there are simple “rules for college:” you apply to several schools, you weigh your options, you enroll at the school that “fits”...

Ray Li '14 Applied and Engineering Physics and Michael Ndubusi '14 Computer Science To play music, you need an instrument, right? You can pluck a string or vibrate a reed or strike a surface or force...