Three small businesses launch JumpStart projects with Cornell materials scientists

Three New York state small businesses will receive JumpStart awards to work with the Cornell Center for Materials Research this spring. (Jan. 6, 2009)

Using light to move and trap DNA molecules

Cornell researchers have used a beam of light to trap and move particles as small as 75 nanometers in diameter, including DNA molecules, a new approach to the 'lab on a chip.' (Dec. 31, 2008)

While supporting others' research, CNF's Derek Stewart pursues his own in nanoscale heat transfer

Quick dissipation of heat at the most fundamental scales is just one way that the work of CNF research associate Derek Stewart may someday change the face of computing and electronics. (Dec. 23, 2008)

Groundbreaking, inexpensive, pocket-sized ultrasound device can help treat cancer, relieve arthritis

Biomedical engineering Ph.D. student George K. Lewis is making therapeutic ultrasound devices that are smaller, more powerful and many times less expensive than today's models. (Dec. 18, 2008)

Students by day, entrepreneurs by night

For entrepreneurial Cornell students, the 168 entrepreneurship classes offered on campus prepare them for a business future -- but many students don't wait until graduation to start a business. (Dec. 18, 2008)

Researchers show how to measure conductance of carbon nanotubes, one by one

Researchers have invented an efficient, inexpensive method to electrically characterize individual carbon nanotubes, even when they are of slightly different shapes and sizes and are networked together. (Dec. 15, 2008)

Students launch paper airlines to celebrate end of semester

Paper airplanes went sailing -- and crashing -- through the Bartels field house Dec. 3 during an end-of-semester competition between teams of mechanical and aerospace engineering students. (Dec. 12, 2008)

Flap like a butterfly, hover like a bumblebee: Student's flapping wing vehicle is more stable than a helicopter

Cornell researchers have come up with a simple, inexpensive flapping wing vehicle that hovers as well as a hummingbird or a bumblebee - and might eventually be made just as small. (Dec. 10, 2008)

Zalaznick Teaching Assistantships awarded

Thirteen Cornell professors recently received awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, administered by Entrepreneurship@Cornell, for assistants to help with their courses. (Nov. 25, 2008)