The willow bioenergy program has a new $950,000 grant for breeding willow and installing a boiler to heat two buildings at Cornell's experiment station in Geneva.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, international religious leader, philosopher, bestselling author and 2016 Templeton Prize Laureate, lectures on “Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence” April 20.
Along with these new finds, James Liebherr, professor and curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, has discovered about half of the 400 total known Mecyclothorax species. (Nov. 20, 2012)
Cornell’s incubator directors often work with aspiring entrepreneurs to assist them in applying to programs; they also may advise them on developing a plan, finding resources and growing their potential business, helping them take further advantage of the plethora of startup resources across Cornell’s campuses.
The Los Angeles Police Department plans to use world’s first ‘pursuit-rated’ hybrid patrol car that accelerates from zero to 60 mph in 5.8 seconds, shattering the myth of the sluggish hybrid vehicle.
Physics graduate students have grand ideas for what they might find once their detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), goes back online later this year.