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.
Cornell researchers have developed an efficient method for the assembly of biologically compatible, antibacterial synthetic macromolecules, the composition of which can be precisely adjusted.
Searching vast cosmic communities like real estate agents rifling through listings, Cornell astronomers now hunt for aging, habitable exoplanets flourishing in old star, red giant neighborhoods.
Emeritus professor Tobias de Boer, who taught mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell for more than 50 years and served as associate director of the Sibley School for nine years, died on May 2 at age 85.
Emeritus professor Stanley Zahler, whose work during his 35-year Cornell career left a lasting imprint on the teaching of microbial genetics at the university, died April 26 in California. He was 89 years old.
Dan Huttenlocher, founding dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech, talked to Ithaca area business leaders on May 3 regarding the state of the school's campus, under construction on Roosevelt Island.
Katja C. Nowack, Cornell assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected by the Department of Energy to receive significant funding for research over five years.
Meeting weekly this semester for the Astronomy 6500 seminar, Cornell undergraduate and graduate students are conducting research – with six other universities – to help NASA find a landing site for the Mars 2020 mission.
Cornell's Saul Teukolsky and Lawrence Kidder have earned a share in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics – a $3 million award - for their work on gravitational waves.
