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.

Undergrads from across country visit for summer research

Undergraduates from across the country are spending several weeks at Cornell this summer researching topics in accelerator physics or X-ray science thanks to two programs funded by the National Science Foundation.

Marschner honored for computer graphic realism

Steve Marschner was selected as the 2015 recipient of the Computer Graphics Achievement Award for modeling natural materials such as hair, skin and fabric.

Trapping vortices key to high-current superconductors

Researchers have found that irradiation of material creates nanometer-sized defects that trap swirling eddies in the flow of electrons, keeping them out of the way so more current can flow through superconductors.

Research finds protein regulation linked to cells' growth cycle

Cornell researchers have gained a new insight into the way cells regulate the expression of their genes, and were surprised to find this regulation closely linked to the a cell’s cycle of growth and division.