Spotlights

Students who spend a semester or a year abroad expect things to be different when they arrive in their new country. They know there will be a different language, different food, and a different...

Senior Environmental Engineering major Meghan Furton did not know she wanted to spend a semester abroad until she sat to speak with an academic advisor named Melissa Bazley, of the Cornell Engineering...

Alida Perez Fodich was born in the mining town of Chuquicamata, Chile, located more than 9000 feet high in the Andes. She lived there until she was ten years old, and then moved with her family to...

Chris De Sa has joined the computer science department at Cornell as an assistant professor. De Sa started at Cornell in July of 2017. He comes to Ithaca after ten years in Palo Alto, California,...

Mert Sabuncu has joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Cornell. Sabuncu, who is...

The growing power of artificial intelligence (AI), and especially machine learning (ML), raises ethical and policy issues that might not be apparent. The fact that these issues are not immediately...

Yadong Wang joins the Meinig School in summer 2017 as professor of heart-assist technology. Dr. Wang's research focuses on creating biomaterials that present controlled chemical, physical, and...

When you drop a coin and it falls into a patch of grass near a parking meter, if you are a sighted person you simply scan the grass until you find the quarter, pick it up, and use it to feed the meter...

Andrej Singer has joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Cornell as an assistant professor after completing a post-doc at the University of California—San...

Often when Hollywood directors want to convey the fact that something very scientific is happening, they will dress the actors in white suits that cover them head to toe—including booties, gloves, and...