After two decades, a fine gold specimen has come home. But instead of forming a Tiffany necklace, it will rest permanently in a special display case in the mineralogical museum in Cornell's Snee Hall.
Christine A. Shoemaker, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Thomas D. Seeley, professor of neurobiology and behavior, at Cornell University have received Alexander von Humboldt Research Awards.
Robert S. Langer, chairman of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's science board, the federal agency's highest advisory panel, will deliver the 2001 Julian C. Smith Lectures in the School of Chemical Engineering at Cornell Monday, April 23, and Tuesday, April 24.
Diversity in engineering is not just about fairness, but about creativity, according to Wm. [William] A. Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering, who will visit the Cornell campus to deliver two lectures on April 11 and 12.
An engineer and a chemist, working together on a corporately funded research project at Cornell, are reporting a fundamentally new way to fabricate nanoscale structures on silicon that promises the development of devices ranging from biological sensors to light-emitting silicon displays.
"The Domestication of Computers" will be the topic for Joel S. Birnbaum, senior technical adviser at Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), in the Henri Sack Memorial Lecture Wednesday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall at Cornell.
Krishanu "Kris" Saha, a senior majoring in chemical engineering at Cornell, has been named a Churchill Scholar by the Winston Churchill Foundation. The Churchill scholarship provides for a year of graduate study in engineering, mathematics or science at Churchill College of the University of Cambridge.
Researchers are using nanotechnology to build microscopic silicon devices with features comparable in size to DNA, proteins and other biological molecules – to count molecules, analyze them, separate them, perhaps even work with them one at a time.
With support from major industrial partners, Cornell University has opened a state-of-the-art laboratory for the design and testing of radio-frequency integrated circuits, such as the transceivers in cellular phones and other wireless devices.
Carol L. Nolan, director of biopharmaceutical technical operations for Glaxo SmithKline, the multinational pharmaceutical concern, and a 1973 Cornell University alumna, will be on campus Nov. 2, to deliver the seventh annual Raymond G. Thorpe Lecture.
Two Cornell faculty members are among this year's recipients of a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, the White House announced today (Tuesday, Oct. 24).
Geoffrey Coates, a Cornell University assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been awarded a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, designed to support young researchers.
