Spotlights

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...

When Anil Damle was an undergraduate at the University of Colorado Boulder he was introduced to the field of applied mathematics. “It became my major right away,” says Damle. “I was drawn to applied...

Esteban Gazel has joined the faculty of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) at Cornell. Gazel started as an associate professor in August of 2017. Gazel grew up in the suburbs of...

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...

Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao , a Ph.D. student in Professor Erickson’s lab , presented his research on “Application of Smartphone Technology in Food Safety” at the Journey Through Science Day in New York City...