Three grad students get Department of Energy fellowships

Three Cornell graduate students have received Department of Energy fellowship awards, which are designed to strengthen the nation's scientific workforce. (Aug. 23, 2010)

Cornell graduate students win top health care prizes, with awards totaling $250,000

Two Cornell graduate students have won awards that total $250,000 - one for instant, accurate testing of sore throats and another for a portable, low-power ultrasound device that promotes healing. (July 12, 2010)

Learning, not lazy days, define on-campus summer activities

Cornell is abuzz all summer with some 4,000 students taking classes or doing research, 400 adults in Cornell Adult University and scores of visitors taking part in one of 60 conferences on campus. (June 25, 2010)

Three doctoral students receive Fulbright-Hays fellowships

The fellowships, for students planning to pursue a teaching career, provide support for six to 12 months of dissertation research in a foreign country. (June 3, 2010)

MacArthur grant allows schoolchildren to print 3-D models

Cornell's Computational Synthesis Lab has been awarded a share of $185,000 from the MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition to bring Fab@Home printers to public elementary schools. (June 1, 2010)

New Ph.D.s encouraged to lead attack against 'willful ignorance' and embrace change

Embrace change as well as achievement, Ron Harris-Warrick, professor of neurobiology and behavior, tells Ph.D. recipients at the 18th annual Ph.D. recognition ceremony in Barton Hall on May 29. (May 30, 2010)

100 mpg car will compete in first judged events in June

The Cornell 100 MPG+ Team has been chosen to compete against eight other teams' fuel-efficient vehicles in first-round action of the Progressive Automotive X Prize competition. (May 17, 2010)

U.S. News ranks six engineering grad programs in top 10

Graduate programs in computer science, chemistry, engineering and physics are among the nation's top 10, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2011 rankings. (April 15, 2010)

Watching crystals grow provides clues to making smoother, defect-free thin films

In the journal Science, Cornell researchers shed new light on how atoms arrange themselves layer by layer into crystalline thin films.