NEW ORLEANS -- In recent years chemists and materials scientists have enthusiastically searched for ways to make materials with nanoscale pores -- channels comparable in size to organic molecules -- that could be used, among other things, to separate proteins by size. Recently Cornell University researchers developed a method to "self-assemble" such structures by using organic polymers to guide the formation of ceramic structures. Now they have advanced another step by incorporating tiny magnetic particles of iron oxide into the walls of porous ceramic structures in a simple "one-pot" self-assembly. Such materials could be used to separate proteins tagged with magnetic materials, or in catalytic processes. (March 21, 2003)
Cornell researchers have used a beam of light to trap and move particles as small as 75 nanometers in diameter, including DNA molecules, a new approach to the 'lab on a chip.' (Dec. 31, 2008)
Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences will host 12 of the university's top social scientists for one semester, providing them with office space and $10,000 for research.
Franklin M. Loew, dean of Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, is leaving that post in January to head a new company in Cambridge, Mass., engaged in research and product development of foods for people with specific disease conditions. Provost Don M. Randel, in announcing Loew's departure.
The George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for the 1997-8 season has been awarded to Alisa Solomon. Solomon is a staff writer at the 'Village Voice', where she writes theater criticism as well as news features on a wide range of political and cultural subjects.
Cornell professor Eswar Prasad has co-authored 'Emerging Markets, Global Financial Crisis, Global Economics' (Brookings Press, 2010), which analyzes the success of emerging market economies. (Dec. 6, 2010)
Every year, more than 3 million American children -- including more than 211,000 in New York -- are reported abused or neglected. Each day, three children die from such maltreatment.
Congratulations! You have just been elected to the village council. Unfortunately, you are not yet an expert in land-use policy, economic development, agricultural development or roads and corridor issues. What are you going to do? "You need to get a fast education on community development," suggests Timothy Cullenen of Cornell University's Community and Rural Development (CaRDI) program. Learning quickly online is now possible at , a new Web site developed by faculty and researchers at CaRDI and Pennsylvania State University's Cooperative Extension division. The education site went online this month. (January 23, 2002)
For years, news stories have warned that the country's long-term care system is in crisis, partly because of an unprecedented shortage of nursing home workers. Cornell University researchers believe they have a remedy.