The Cornell Baja SAE Racing Team’s off-road, single-seat race car snagged first place last weekend in an international competition against 88 other teams.

Graduate students from Cornell's College of Engineering welcomed 41 families to Olin Hall on Saturday for the University's third annual WOMEN event, an outreach program designed to give female high school students the opportunity to experience the study of engineering first-hand.

After a mandatory two-month recess, Cornell’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers team was reinstated mid-semester. The hiatus came after several FSAE freshmen told administrators that the organization was causing a great deal of stress and a decline in their academic performance.

Prof. Christine Ann Shoemaker, civil and environmental engineering, said that when she first came to Cornell 30 years ago, there were hardly any other female faculty or female students in the College of Engineering.

The Sun interviews David Kumka '12, Ian Janicki '12 and Dan Marino '12 about their exhibit in Hartell Gallery, going on this week. 

Amelia Brown takes on Steve Jobs, sewing machines and the need for a multi-faceted understanding of the term "elegance."

Prof. Adam Seth Levine '03, government, won the American Political Science Association award for his doctoral research on people's participation in politics.  

Artificial intelligence lurks at the bottom of the pool. Designed by Cornell students, the unmanned sub Drekar – named after a long, sturdy Viking ship – probed the depths of a San Diego pool during the 14^th International RoboSub Competition. The Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team placed second during the competition, July 12-16, 2011.

Cornell Dots or C Dots are tiny glass-encased beacons  that some hope will greatly improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. They are about a million times smaller than either one of your eyeballs.  This comparison is by no means trivial; already, C Dots are revolutionizing human optical capability.