William Dichtel, Nate Foster and Noah Snavely are among 126 researchers selected from 51 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada to receive Sloan Research Fellowships for 2012.
With the CU-ADVANCE Center's five-year grant period drawn to a close, its leaders point to the many ways its goals have been met, but also what more needs to be done.
Cornell researchers have peered into the complex network of receptors that give bacteria the ability to sense their environment and respond to chemical changes as small as 1 part in 1,000.
Professor Trevor Pinch presented 'The Sound of Economic Exchange: Listening to Sound Studies,' Feb. 15 as the Society for the Humanities Annual Invitational lecturer.
A.D. White Professor-at-Large Anne Carson led workshops on collaboration, lectured and performed and worked with students the week of Feb. 13 while on campus.
In 'The Happiness of Pursuit,' psychology professor Shimon Edelman offers an explanation of how we process our world and the 'elbow room' in which we can chase happiness.
Christine Shoemaker, the Joseph P. Ripley Professor of Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest professional distinctions for an engineer. Two Cornell alumni were also elected.
Twenty-eight of Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's essays are collected in a book edited by Jeffrey Kovac and Michael Weisberg, published Jan. 23 by Oxford University Press.
