A $1 million gift from Kionix Inc., an Ithaca-based company founded to commercialize technology developed at Cornell, has established the Kionix Graduate Fellowship in Engineering. (Oct. 11, 2012)
Cornell University Genetically Engineered Machines has designed and built a biosensor that uses an electroactive bacterial species to detect the toxic substances arsenic and naphthalene in water. (Oct. 2, 2012)
Three New York state companies have received funding through the JumpStart program, which fosters industry-university collaborations to support product development, revenue growth and job creation. (Oct. 1, 2012)
Julie Nucci proposes an integrated approach to solving the STEM pipeline crisis, which includes keeping the CNS Institute for Physics Teachers alive. (Oct. 1, 2012)
A National Science Foundation grant to the Department of Classics will support dendrochronology research in the Near East to determine a precise radiocarbon timeline for Biblical archaeology. (Sept. 27, 2012)
Cornell computer scientists have proposed an innovative wireless design that could greatly reduce the cost and power consumption of massive cloud computing data centers, while improving performance. (Sept. 26, 2012)
Physicist John Carlstrom will offer a series of Hans Bethe lectures touching on his work in the Antarctic, where he scans the skies for cosmic radiation through the South Pole Telescope project. (Sept. 25, 2012)
Using 3-D time-lapse imaging, physicists, working with plant biologists, have discovered that certain roots, when faced with barriers like a patch of stiff dirt, form helical spring-like shapes. (Sept. 24, 2012)
