The McNair Scholars Program, designed to increase the attainment of Ph.D.s among first generation, low-income and underrepresented students, inducted 16 undergraduates April 9.
The U.K.'s astronomer royal, Lord Martin Rees, will explore our vulnerabilities and possibilities in the first Carl Sagan Distinguished Lecture at Cornell Monday, May 8, at 7 p.m. in Call Auditorium.
Physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed will speak on “The Morality of Fundamental Physics” April 21 in a public lecture as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at 7 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
Cornell engineering students are creating a state-of-the-art computer model to strategically place trees on highways near residential areas to mitigate pollution particles and improve human health.
Research from Cornell and the University of Chicago has revealed a technique to “sew” two patches of crystals seamlessly together to create atomically thin fabrics.
Research on blood flow in the brain, from the lab of Chris Schaffer and Nozomi Nishimura, could help inform better therapies for people with dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.
A research group led by Debdeep Jena of electrical and chemical engineering has successfully constructed a semiconductor-superconductor heterostructure that could help change electronics.