Cornell's Saul Teukolsky and Lawrence Kidder have earned a share in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics – a $3 million award - for their work on gravitational waves.
Ten Cornell faculty in the social sciences, humanities and arts will be next year’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future faculty-in-residence fellows working on sustainability projects.
Agribusiness expert Todd Schmit of the Dyson School has created a toolkit to evaluate the economic benefits of investing in local and regional food systems.
Cornell's new Sutton Road solar farm, a facility that will offset 40 percent of the electricity at the university's agricultural experiment station in Geneva, New York, has become operational.
Biology professor and bee expert Thomas Seeley's new book, "Following the Wild Bees," is a celebration of the outdoors and a practical guide to the methods and craft of hunting wild honeybees.
Minglin Ma, assistant professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, has won a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, worth $300,000 over three years.