Workshop at Cornell will promote state-of-the-art computer simulation in engineering education

A workshop at Cornell July 25-26 will bring together leaders from educational institutions and industry to find ways to integrate simulation technology into the engineering curriculum. (July 25, 2008)

Ashcroft honored by Russian Academy of Sciences

Condensed matter physicist Neil W. Ashcroft, the Horace White Professor of Physics emeritus, has been elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. (June 30, 2008)

Skorton spends a lunch hour (virtually) on Mars

Skorton got a backstage look at the planning behind NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission during his first meeting with astronomy professor Steve Squyres, the lead scientist for the mission. (June 26, 2008)

In 'novel playground,' metals are formed into porous nanostructures for better fuel cells and microchips

Cornell researchers have developed a method to self-assemble metals into complex nanostructures for catalysis by guiding metal particles into the desired form using soft polymers. (June 26, 2008)

Cornell efficiency experts seek to save precious minutes in deploying ambulances

How can ambulances get emergency services to people in need as efficiently as possible? It's a classic operations research question that three Cornell researchers are tackling in groundbreaking ways. (June 16, 2008)

NBA star players make winning coaches, study shows, as example of how experts make the best leaders

Star players in the NBA make winning coaches, finds a study out of Cornell and the University of Warwick, England. The results indicate that experts in a field make the best leaders. (June 13, 2008)

Cornell engineering students at Lockheed Martin launch record-breaking balloon

The early-career engineers at Lockheed Martin, also Cornell systems engineering master's students, broke the previous amateur altitude record by nearly 5,000 feet. (June 12, 2008)

Meeting to consider tree planting as antidote to urban ills is uprooted by 'inconvenient conclusion'

Horticulturist Tom Whitlow reported at a Cornell Cooperative Extension-NYC conference that planting trees as a strategy for reducing asthma 'is unlikely to work.' (June 11, 2008)

Estrogen may play key role in prostate cancer, WCMC researchers find

Using a new technique to extract genetic information from stored samples, researchers discovered a link between estrogen-dependent molecular pathways and a particularly aggressive form of prostate cancer. (June 11, 2008)