A team of Cornell researchers has used cyclodextrin, the same material found in the air freshener Febreze, to develop a technique that could revolutionize the water-purification industry.
This year's Caplan Travel Fellowship winners are Christopher Erdman '17 and John Hall '17, who will each use their $4,000 award to study and conduct research in Italy.
The third cohort of Posse Foundation students came to Cornell this fall. The full-scholarship and youth leadership program brings promising Chicago students to 10 top-tier universities.
Cornell hopes to bring nanotech to young students in the area with the establishment of CNF Ambassadors, an outreach program being run by the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility.
College Scholars Kasey Han '18, Severine Hex '18 and Conor Hodges '18 will undertake varied research projects that cross disciplines and fields of study, including inequality studies and circus arts.
Twelve teams of eLab students pitched their start-up business ideas to 54 alumni and prospective advisers at a New York City event Dec. 4. Ideas included an equine water monitoring system.
Benedict Anderson, a Cornell professor emeritus in government who wrote “Imagined Communities,” the book that set the pace for the academic study of nationalism, died Dec. 13 in East Java, Indonesia. He was 79.
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2014-15 academic year.
