This month marks the third anniversary of the discovery of a system of seven exoplanets known as TRAPPIST-1. Nikole Lewis, assistant professor of astronomy, is principal investigator for one of the teams investigating TRAPPIST-1.
Assistant professors Damek Davis, Christina Delimitrou and Robert A. DiStasio Jr. have won 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
New Cornell research shows that traditional physics labs can have a negative impact on students, while nontraditional, inquiry-based labs can improve student performance and engagement.
Shaoyi Jiang, Ph.D. ’93, has been named the first Robert S. Langer ’70 Family and Friends Professor at Cornell. Jiang’s wife, Qiuming Yu, Ph.D. ’95, also will join the Cornell faculty.
Lance Collins, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering, will join Virginia Tech as the inaugural vice president and executive director of its new Innovation Campus, following completion of his second term as dean June 30.
Cornell Engineering has announced winners of its Scale-Up and Prototyping Awards, which give teams of engineering faculty and students up to $40,000 to commercialize startup technologies.
The Spitzer Space Telescope – with its Cornell-developed infrared spectrograph instrument – has been peering through murky cosmic dust to study the distant heavens. The mission ends Jan. 30.
Cornell has signed on with the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science, a consortium of America’s leading higher education institutions focused on demonstrating the public value of research.
Cornell researchers have created a soft robot muscle that can regulate its temperature through sweating. This technology will enable untethered, high-powered robots to operate for long periods of time without overheating.
