Cornell Tech names Juliet Weissman chief administrative officer

Juliet Weissman, Cornell Tech’s new chief administrative officer, will oversee administrative, financial and operational aspects of Cornell Tech and will serve as a key advisor to Dean Dan Huttenlocher in these areas.

Greg Morrisett to return to Cornell as CIS dean

Greg Morrisett, the Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, has been named dean of Computing and Information Science. A former member of the Cornell faculty, he will assume his new post July 1.

Engineering grad programs rank in top 10 in U.S. News

Several graduate engineering fields at Cornell are in the top 10 in U.S. News and World Report’s 2016 "Best Graduate Schools" rankings, released March 10. Cornell Law School was ranked 13th overall and Johnson was ranked 16th.

Steven Strogatz wins Lewis Thomas science writing prize

Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science. He will be honored at a March 30 reception at Rockefeller University.

Beating bird wings generate electricity for data collector

A technology that generates electricity from the beating wings of birds, bats or even moths could produce enough power to run a device that collects data used by biologists.

Popular origami pattern makes the mechanical switch

Reporting in Nature Materials March 9, Cornell physicists have made a mechanical switch out of the origami folding pattern known as the square twist.

One fractal quantifies another, mathematicians find

Cornell mathematicians offer a new way of seeing the Abelian sandpile fractal, by quantifying how its formation depends on its original square grid.

Electron spins controlled using sound waves

Cornell applied physicists have demonstrated an unprecedented method of control over electron spins using extremely high-frequency sound waves.

Physicist explores life’s 'most beautiful phenomena'

Princeton theoretical physicist William Bialek will lecture on "More Perfect than We Imagined: A Physicist's View of Life" Wednesday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.