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.
Cornell events this week include a talk with actress Vanessa Bayer; an impeachment law panel discussion; "Some Like It Hot" in a classic American cinema series; and a community concert with the Glee Club and Chorus.
Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, hosts a new podcast series for Quanta Magazine called “The Joy of x” in which he interviews scientists and mathematicians about their lives and work.
Six of the world’s most promising early-career scholars are recipients of the inaugural three-year Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships, in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences.
