Richard “Dick” W. Conway ’54, Ph.D. ’58, a trailblazing professor who was instrumental in launching Cornell’s Department of Computer Science in 1965 – one of the first of its kind – died March 19. He was 92.
Kimberly Griffin, dean of the College of Education and professor of higher education at the University of Maryland, discussed the importance of making space for identity in mentoring relationships during the 2024 MAC Public Keynote.
Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have created an “extension without penalty” system that features two assignment deadlines – an “ideal” and an EWP – and charted how the penalty-free extensions were used by students.
Meagan Sundstrom won Cornell’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. 3MT challenges graduate students to present their thesis research compellingly to general audiences in just three minutes.
Eight projects have been selected from the Fall 2023 application cycle to receive Ignite Innovation Acceleration grants. The grants are designed to help project teams pursue licensing, form startups, and forge industry collaborations.
Researchers from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business found that for some charitable donors, the extra incentive of a gift is an important lever for opening pocketbooks, and advertising it prominently can help charities increase giving.
A collaboration between researchers from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania found that most successful deep neural networks follow a similar trajectory in the same “low-dimensional” space.