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Grad student aims to improve particle accelerators

New interdisciplinary research on photocathodes by physics graduate student Siddharth Karkare has the potential to dramatically improve accelerator performance.

Ashim Datta to lead food safety simulation project

A $683,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will support a project aimed at integrating the power of computer simulation with the teaching of food safety principles.

Lynden Archer receives chemical engineering award

Professor Lynden Archer has received the 2014 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Liners can protect pipelines during earthquakes

Cornell civil engineers have found that retrofitting pipelines with flexible tubular membranes saturated with thermosetting resin could prevent earthquake damage to seismically vulnerable pipelines in the U.S.

Black alumni group awards first literary grant

The Cornell Black Alumni Association is helping first-time alumni authors with a new literary grant program. The first recipient is Dionne M. Benjamin '00, who envisioned a book series called “City Kids.”

Trustee Emeritus Dick Call dies at age 84

Richard "Dick" C. Call ’52, farmer, businessman and Cornell trustee emeritus, died Aug. 2 after a long illness. He was 84 years old.

A new player in lipid metabolism discovered

Mice engineered with fat cells that lacked a specific gene did not gain weight when fed high-fat Western diets.

The perfect atom sandwich requires an extra layer

Cornell materials scientists have discovered the trick of growing perfect films of oxides called Ruddlesden-Poppers.

Things to Do, Aug. 1-22

Events on campus include free concerts, exhibitions of art quilts and of craft brewing in New York state past and present, stargazing and a paleontology symposium.

Ag secretary briefed on nutrition, dairy, climate research

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack met with Cornell faculty members July 29 to learn about solutions in the realm of dairy, nutrition and climate change.

Book on international development has site for online dialogue

A book on international development co-edited by a Cornell professor has spawned a website for continuing discussion.

Computer model reveals cancer's energy source

A computer model study reveals – for the first time – details of an energy-creating process vital and unique to cancer cells, which holds promise for new interventions.