Assistant Professor Rafael Pass has received a five-year, $450,000 award from the National Science Foundation to conduct research that could lead to secure online voting systems and improved Internet security overall. (March 5, 2008)
Cornell researchers have captured the sharpest mid-infrared images yet of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years wide orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Employing powerful genome sequencing tools, Cornell scientists have gained new insight into how efficiently the microbes in large bioreactors produce methane from brewery waste. (Feb. 24, 2011)
Cornell University Press author Fiona Terry, writer of "Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action," has received the 2006 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for "Ideas Improving World Order." (December 09, 2005)
Susanna Throop, a May 2000 graduate of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences and a 1996 graduate of Newfield High School, has been awarded the prestigious Gates-Cambridge Trust Scholarship inaugurated this year.
Attendees at the April 1 Service Recognition Dinner celebrated 25 or more years of service to Cornell by listening to opera, watching a clogger, rocking to rock and clapping to the sounds of the past 40 years. (April 9, 2009)
Cornell scientists led by Itai Cohen, associate professor of physics, have explored why these fluids behave like they do by watching how micron-sized suspended particles dance in real time and space. (Sept. 1, 2011)
This year's Hotel Ezra Cornell centered on gambling destination Las Vegas, and speakers from the hotel industry addressed the ways in which the city is responding to the current economic crisis. (April 6, 2009)