CNF NanoDay Engages and Educates

The event in the Duffield Atrium attracted over 500 attendees and brought science down to size, offering hands-on activities and live virtual tours that showcased the world of the very, very small.

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Ignite alum Gallox Semiconductors joins Breakthrough Energy Fellows

Gallox Semiconductors, led by Jonathan McCandless, Ph.D. ’23, has been selected for the fourth cohort of the Breakthrough Energy Fellows, a group of entrepreneurs focusing on technology that reduce greenhouse gases.

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Rich Knepper Elected Chair of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC)

The Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) is pleased to announce that Rich Knepper from the Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing has been elected as the new Chair of the organization. 

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CCE appoints human nutrition, food safety & obesity prevention lead

Angela Odoms-Young is the critical issue lead for extension programming in the areas of human nutrition, food safety and security and obesity prevention, effective October 1, 2024. The appointment reflects CCE's dedication to leveraging campus resources and CCE educators and collaborators across the state, to ensure that needs are met and key metrics and benchmarks for educational work are identified. 

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Archaeology conference focuses on cultural erasure

Unearthing Unseeing: Archaeology, Heritage, and Forensics in the Shadow of State Violence” will highlight new approaches to cultural remains caught up in contemporary conflicts and past trauma.  

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Cornell Keynotes podcast: Rethinking migration, the journeys of people and birds

Cornell Law School's Marielena Hincapié and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Amanda Rodewald discuss the challenges of migration and solutions for a sustainable future on the Cornell Keynotes podcast.

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Demographic change is reshaping public policy from NY to Africa

Together, Matt Hall, Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, and their faculty colleagues at the Cornell Population Center are pushing the traditional limits of their disciplines to find creative ways to meet a generation that could be defined by major population transformations. This includes leveraging demographic and big data tools to analyze how older populations navigate their communities, how racial diversity shapes patterns of marriage and childbearing, and how accelerating migration may undermine repressive political regimes.

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Art + tech exhibit looking for student work

Students can win up to $1,500 for projects that combine art and technology in the inaugural Art + Tech exhibit hosted by The Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity.

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Two-day 'LepageFest' honors physicist and former dean of A&S

The conference focused on the current status and future of heavy quark physics while highlighting the science Lepage has done throughout his career.

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