Physicists close in on world's most sensitive resonators

Cornell physicists in the lab of Mukund Vengalattore have developed a novel method of manipulating mechanical resonators to be sensitive enough to work at the quantum scale.

Research reveals how advertisers play the online bidding game

Computer scientists from Cornell show how websites can analyze their value to advertisers. They recently presented their method at the 16th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation in Portland, Oregon.

Student interns help stir growth at Ithaca Hummus

Students Kelley McElfresh ’16, Devin Hegelein ’17 and Katie Kraft ’17 are making substantial contributions to sales and manufacturing at Ithaca Hummus in Groton, New York.

Astronomers bring a new hope to find 'Tatooine' planets

Sibling suns – made famous in "Star Wars" – and the planets around them may be more common than we've thought, and Cornell astronomers are presenting new ideas on how to find them.

Physics major helping space tourism get off the ground

Physics student Joseph Parisi '18 leads a task on predicative analytics for balloon and payload trajectories as an intern at World View, a space tourism start-up.

Faculty help diversify the op-ed landscape

Faculty members have received special coaching to help them express their ideas in popular media through the Public Voices Fellows program.

Woubshet finds poetry amid loss in the early era of AIDS

Associate professor of English Dagmawi Woubshet finds a "poetics of compounding loss" among mourners responding to AIDS deaths in the U.S. and Ethiopia in his new book, "The Calendar of Loss."

Physics professor Chris Henley dies at 59

Christopher L. Henley, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, died June 29 after an illness. He was 59 years old.

Students spend summer incubating their business ideas

While most Cornell students headed home for the summer, a group of entrepreneurial undergrads and graduate students are staying in Ithaca for intensive business development as part of the new Life Changing Labs summer incubator.