May 9 conference to inaugurate Institute for Pale Blue Dots

Learn about planets beyond our solar system, far-flung missions and possible life in the cosmos at “(un)Discovered Worlds,” a one-day Cornell University space sciences conference May 9 to inaugurate the new Institute for Pale Blue Dots.

STEM center receives $130,000 grant for expansion

Cornell University Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning received a $130,000 grant to prepare future STEM faculty to be great researchers and teachers.

Students, teachers unite in India for science literacy

As part of the Cornell GK-12 Grass Roots program, four Cornell graduate students and two local teachers traveled to India to exchange best practices in science education with Indian schoolteachers.

Engineering society honors two grad students

Malika Grayson and Darvin J. Griffin have received the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Mike Shinn Distinguished Member of the Year award - one of the organization's highest honors for graduate students.

Physicists energized about restart of Large Hadron Collider

Physics graduate students have grand ideas for what they might find once their detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), goes back online later this year.

Adding renewable energy to power grid requires flexibility

A Cornell study offers a comprehensive reimagining of the power grid that involves the coordinated integration of small-scale distributed energy resources.

From medicine to art, chemistry alumni to talk careers April 11

Five Cornellians with careers from medicine to forensic science to art preservation will return to campus April 11 for "The Places You Will Go: How Chemistry Impacted my Life – Cornell and Beyond."

Cornell plays key role surfing for gravitational waves

Professor of astronomy James Cordes is a co-principal investigator on a NSF-funded project to create of a new center that will seek out low-frequency gravitational waves.

Three alumni win million euro Brain Prize

Winfried Denk, Ph.D. ’89, Karel Svoboda ’88, and David Tank, M.S. ’80, Ph.D. ’83, have won the Brain Prize for their groundbreaking work with two-photon microscopy. All three graduates worked in the laboratory of Watt Webb.