When it comes to the future of solar energy cells, say farewell to silicon, and hello to calcium titanium oxide – the compound mineral better known as perovskite.
Cornell's Bill and Melinda Gates Hall, home of Computing and Information Science, opened for business this week. The building features "curved lines intersecting with linear angles, lots of glass and light" to inspire creativity and collaboration.
Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences and professor of astronomy, delivered a keynote address to approximately 1,000 K-12 teachers at the National Math and Science Initiative virtual conference.
The 2016 Empire State Healthcare Survey, conducted by the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures, revealed that the cost of medical care and health insurance has many New Yorkers worried.
Cross-campus gathering will focus on the biggest challenges facing the world, and help determine a theme on which the university will focus in the 2019-2020 academic year.
Expansion of Arctic vegetation due to climate change has probably been underestimated, and increasing tree and shrub cover will accelerate climate change and possible adverse effects on wildlife.
Cornell faculty members Christopher Batten and Robert Shepherd are recent recipients of Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program grants.
Vikram Gadagkar, MS ’10, Ph,D, ’13, was recently awarded a three-year, $234,150 Simons Foundation fellowship with the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain.