Far below Bermuda’s pink sand beaches and turquoise tides, Cornell geoscientists have found the first direct evidence that material from deep within Earth’s transition zone can percolate to form volcanoes.
New research by physics and astronomy professor Eanna Flanagan, published last month in Physical Review D, identifies new ways to detect the passage of gravitational waves via their effect on matter.
The Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, which attracts some of the world’s best young talent to Cornell, has chosen eight new fellows.
The student-run symposium recognizes research achievement and provides a venue for undergraduates to communicate their work in a scholarly environment.
Cornell astronomer Jonathan Lunine suggested to Congress on May 8 reasonable, practical steps – including baby steps back to the moon – to help Americans one day put boots on the oxidized dust of Mars.
A visionary 19th-century academic and innovator whose contributions helped usher mechanical engineering into the modern era, Thurston turned Cornell into the largest and most prominent mechanical engineering program in the country.
Doctoral students Renee Sifri, studying chemistry, and Anna Srapionyan, studying applied math, have been honored with Cornelia Ye Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards.
Cornell undergraduates involved in psychology across a number of schools and colleges present their research across a broad array of interests at a May 9 conference in the Physical Sciences Building Atrium.
Oculi, a sculptural pavilion by architecture, art and engineering faculty at Cornell, will move this spring from New York City to Art Omi, an art organization in Ghent, New York.
