Cornell Duffield College of Engineering

Stimulus grant to enhance arXiv e-preprints for scientists

Stimulus funding will enhance Cornell's e-print arXiv of scientific papers to help users identify a work's main concepts, see research reports in context and easily find related work. (Nov. 17, 2009)

Researcher works toward making biological imaging 1,000 times faster with stimulus grant

Professor Warren Zipfel hopes to make fluorescence lifetime imaging up to 1,000 times faster and simpler to implement. (Nov. 16, 2009)

Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects

Engineering researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers. (Nov. 16, 2009)

Cornell's 100-mpg car hits the road for a test-drive

Cornell's competition vehicle, vying for a share of the $10 million prize, is now being test driven. (Nov. 16, 2009)

Senior leaders host brown-bag talk on student enrollment recommendations

What actions did the task force on student enrollment recommend to Cornell? Key administrators reviewed the findings at a brown-bag lunch Nov. 12.

Researchers find reliable, mess-free way to grow graphene

A Cornell research team has invented a simple way to make graphene electrical devices by growing the graphene directly onto a silicon wafer. (Nov. 9, 2009)

'Temporal telescope' compresses optical signals

An ingenious method to time-compress optical signals could enable optical communication systems to carry many more bits per second. (Nov. 3, 2009)

Two grad students earn prestigious Intel fellowships

Shuang Zhao and Mark Cianchetti have each received a Ph.D. Fellowship Award from Intel Corp., which recognizes their potential as future technology leaders. (Nov. 3, 2009)

Cornell team investigates how to starve tumors

Federal stimulus funding helps Cornell researchers create tiny 3-D models of tumors to mimic conditions necessary for the development of vascular systems by tumors. (Nov. 2, 2009)