News: ECE

Thirty-three seniors from Cornell's seven undergraduate colleges are honored as Merrill Presidential Scholars in ceremony May 25 in Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room. Read more

Six engineering doctoral students will spend the summer and the fall semester exploring the potential to turn their research into a business as the first commercialization fellows. Read more

A Cornell-led team of researchers has displayed the ability to alter superconductor strontium ruthenate's electrical properties through strain, or 'stretching', of a thin film of the material. Read more

Women haven’t reached parity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines, but progressive policies could help, said Sharon Sassler at the Empowering Women in Science and Engineering Symposium. Read more

Cornell Tech announced May 25 that Ron Brachman, an internationally recognized authority on artificial intelligence, will join the campus as the new director of the Joan Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. Read more

Coffee hours at the Carl Sagan Institute have spurred multi-disciplinary talks among faculty members from 11 departments and five colleges and schools at Cornell. Read more

Cornell computer scientists have developed software to detect fake postings to social media sites designed to artificially inflate the popularity of a page. Read more

The ExxonMobil Foundation has given Cornell $447,046 through its Educational Matching Gifts Program. Read more

Wendi Heinzelman '95 (ECE), has been named dean of the University of Rochester's Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences - the first woman to serve as dean of the engineering school. Heinzelman is currently dean of graduate studies for arts, sciences and engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university. Read more

Actor, director, writer and champion of science Alan Alda provided a communication mandate May 16 at Bailey Hall for Cornell's faculty and researchers: Use plain language to be clear. Read more