A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications. (Dec. 8, 2009)
Jared Genser '95 founded Freedom Now to release prisoners of conscience around the world and has won the freedom of five prisoners from China, Vietnam, Burma, Pakistan and Egypt. (Dec. 8, 2009)
Professors William White and Kosali Simon contrasted elements of two health care bills that propose to expand health coverage using a combination of incentives and penalties. (Dec. 8, 2009)
Interviews with illustrious African-Americans who are members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, founded at Cornell in 1906, have been donated to Cornell University Library. (Dec. 7, 2009)
Cornell students designed winter boots that improve circulation and a jacket with built-in headphones for people in wheelchairs, among other products as part of a textiles course. (Dec. 7, 2009)
A $2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging will help researchers translate knowledge in social science into treatments, intervention programs and policies related to pain disorders. (Dec. 7, 2009)
Department of Music chair Roberto Sierra has been nominated for a Grammy Award in Best Contemporary Classical Composition for 'Missa Latina Pro Pace.' (Dec. 4, 2009)
The contingent hopes to use the meeting as a springboard for creating interdisciplinary partnerships at Cornell to research pressing climate issues in the future.
Michael Latham, professor emeritus and graduate professor of nutritional sciences, was the sole American at a large Asian conference where he gave the keynote address Nov. 19. (Dec. 4, 2009)
In the fourth of six public discussions, Provost Kent Fuchs and task force chair Ron Seeber noted that the focus of the management sciences report is largely conceptual.
A handful of faculty attended the informal Dec. 3 brown-bag lunch hosted by Provost Kent Fuchs to discuss the findings of the life sciences task force.
Khaleel Atiyyeh '10, Joanne Chickering '12 and Patricia Green '10 received 2009 Robert S. Smith Awards for Community Progress and Innovation to implement innovative community-building projects. (Dec. 3, 2009)
