The color “ultrablack” has a variety of uses, including in cameras, solar panels and telescopes, but it’s difficult to produce and can appear less black when viewed at an angle. A Cornell lab has devised a simple method for making the elusive color.
A festive black-tie gala brought together fashion industry star power, networking opportunities and Cornell fashion students wearing shimmering gowns and fashion-forward tuxedos.
A project led by Cornell’s Center for Point of Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection and Cancer to develop a low-cost, battery-powered device for sample preparation in tuberculosis (TB) testing in areas with limited lab access and infrastructure, has received a $250,000 grant from the Gates Foundation.
Willard Straight Hall has evolved over the last 100 years, but one thing has remained constant: It’s the place where Cornellians gather. Alumni, students, faculty and staff did just that on Nov. 21 for the Straight’s Centennial Celebration.
Legal scholar Gail Heriot will describe a chain of unintended consequences of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 in her talk "Why We Walk on Eggshells," Dec. 8.
For research excellence into how living structures recover and preserve order in morphology amid constant disruption, postdoctoral scientist Lanxi Hu has been awarded the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology’s 2025 Sam and Nancy Fleming Research Fellowship.
REEgen, a Cornell spinout focused on rare earth element (REE) recovery, won the $150,000 grand prize at the 2025 FuzeHub Commercialization Competition, held at the New York State Innovation Summit on Oct. 29-30.
