Nominations of underrepresented tenured faculty as sought for the Public Voices Fellowship, a new initiative to increase the public impact of the nation’s top thought leaders.
ZYMtronix, a startup company with roots in Cornell-developed technology and operating in Cornell’s McGovern Center for business development, has signed an agreement with Codexis, a major producer of pharmaceutical enzymes.
Physicist Séamus Davis has received a $2 million, five-year grant to explore new ways to study “quantum materials” like superconductors, superfluids and whatever comes next.
Researchers have discovered that patches of waterlogged soil in forested watersheds act as hot spots of microbial activity that remove nitrogen from groundwater and return it to the atmosphere.
“Expanded Communities and Posthumanity” will feature scholars from a wide range of disciplines exploring the field of posthumanities on campus Nov. 5-6.
Robert F. Engle, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ‘69, who won the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, spoke on campus Oct. 24 about economics models that can stave off another financial crisis.
Artist Chon Noriega, curator of a 1993 Arts Quad exhibition that led to the takeover of Day Hall by Latino students, recalled the events in a campus talk Oct. 28.
