Cornell engineers are adding their expertise in robot autonomy to the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a multi-year, international prize competition sponsored by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
A team led by Tobias Hanrath, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has demonstrated controlled fusion of semiconductor quantum dots within a nanoreactor cage of rusty particles.
Cornell's corpse plant bloomed for the first time in March 2012, attracting more than 10,000 visitors over five days, and is expected to bloom again in the next few days.
The two-day sesquicentennial event, “Vietnam: The War at Cornell," Nov. 10-11, brought former students, faculty and staff back to campus to discuss Cornell in the late 1960s.
Events on campus this week include Mahler's epic Symphony No. 5, classic horror and witchcraft films, a tribute to 'Woodswoman' Anne LaBastille and a symposium on architectural reuse then and now.
Astronomy graduate students Andy Bohn, François Hébert and William Throwe contributed to the visualization of black holes in the new movie "Interstellar."
