Several Cornell researchers shared findings and insights from their respective fields at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago, Feb. 12-17.
Peng Chen, Cornell’s Peter J.W. Debye Professor of Chemistry, has received a 2014 early career award in experimental physical chemistry from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society.
Making lifelike wax molds of their own faces to replicate Roman funeral masks, Cornell researchers explored the significance of materials in the ancient practice of remembering deceased ancestors.
Squinting close to the beginning of time, Dominik Riechers, Cornell assistant professor of astronomy, has discovered an association of gas-rich galaxies near the infancy of cosmic time. It’s an early epoch – some 12.7 billion years ago – telling a tale that revolves around an exceptionally dusty galaxy called AzTEC-3.
A national effort to rethink how graduate students in science, technology, engineering and math fields are trained was the topic of a Feb. 14 American Association for the Advancement of Science panel that included remarks from Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell professor of science communication.
Abby Cohn, professor of linguistics, finds that Indonesia's "official" language is endangering hundreds of other languages spoken by small groups of people.
The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology has awarded the Harvey Prize for outstanding efforts in the areas of science, technology, human health and peace to computer scientist Jon Kleinberg.
Cornell history professor Rachel Weil has published “A Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England,” which focuses on the early years of the British monarch.
