Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Stephen Wicker will teach “Wiretaps to Big Data: Privacy and Surveillance in the Age of Complete Interconnection,” which will explain how cellular technology makes surveillance possible, how surveillance affects how we use cellular and other technologies, cellular user’s rights and how this system affects our democratic institutions. Read more
Christine Shoemaker, the Joseph P. Ripley Professor of Engineering, has received the 2014 National Engineering Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies. Read more
Physicists and engineers have found a new way to control electron spins - not with a magnetic field, but with a mechanical oscillator. Read more
The new website, climatechange.cornell.edu, is a one-stop shop for everything climate change. It's searchable and includes research, outreach programs and issue-specific pages. Read more
Last month, international software design company Autodesk gave Cornell one of the largest gifts-in-kind it has ever received: 3-D design, engineering and entertainment software. The software is commercially valued at $51.4 million. Read more
Eight Cornell scientists have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. Read more
ECE Professor Emeritus, Norman M. Vrana, passed away peacefully at home on November 9, 2013. Read more
A method for bioengineering living human ears garnered a first-place award at the World Technology Summit in New York City, Nov. 15. Read more
Jorge de la Guardia, M.Eng. ’74, executive manager for the Panama Canal expansion, gave a Nov. 7 talk, “The Political and Economic Challenges for the Construction of the New Panama Canal,” on campus. Read more
Cornell President David Skorton and Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Charles Elachi signed a memorandum of understanding Nov. 8 making Cornell the California lab’s latest strategic partner. Read more
