Cornell's Fuertes Observatory has a new museum featuring vintage observatory instruments, many collected in the 19th century by Estevan Fuertes, founding dean of Cornell's civil engineering department.
A new phase of matter known as topological insulators, until recently known only for esoteric quantum-mechanical properties, might have a practical use in controlling magnetic memory and logic devices.
Cornell's master of engineering with a financial engineering concentration was lauded by Advanced Trading magazine for the quality of its academic program and rate of job placement. (May 22, 2012)
Bringing together scientists from Cornell and elsewhere, the symposium will cover a wide range of applications, from cell culture to de-icing. (May 9, 2011)
Researchers at Cornell and Weill Cornell Medical College have received a $1.34 million grant to study whether obesity changes breast tissue in a manner similar to tumors, thereby permitting the disease to develop.
A profile of Peter Wittich, associate professor of physics, who works on neutrinos with ever larger teams of scientists at major international research facilities such as Fermilab and CERN.
On topics ranging from oceanic disease to restraining invasive species from distant seas, Cornell faculty joined 10,000 scientists to discuss “Envisioning Tomorrow’s Earth” at the AAAS meeting in Seattle.
While developed countries have long been blamed for Earth’s rising greenhouse gas emissions, Cornell researchers now predict when developing countries will contribute more to climate change than advanced societies: 2030.
Chinelo Onyilofor ’15, a dual major in chemistry and art history who will graduate Saturday, credits the liberal arts with expanding her combine subjective and objective disciplines to solve problems.
Peter Gierasch, Cornell professor of astronomy, has been awarded astronomy’s prestigious Gerard P. Kuiper Prize by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society on July 2.