Cornell researchers were recently awarded $1.5 million as part of a $9 million grant to develop a unified, interdisciplinary and tech-savvy approach to outpace the pathogen. (March 31, 2011)
Researchers have reported significant progress in making a new generation of transistors based on gallium nitride, a material that promises to deliver up to a hundred times as much power at microwave frequencies as the semiconductors now used in cellular telephones, military radar and satellite transmitters.
A Literary Luncheon at the home of President David Skorton and Professor Robin Davisson will feature University Librarian Anne Kenney speaking on Ernest Hemingway's literary legacy in Cuba on Feb. 10. (Feb. 1, 2010)
'Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon,' a traveling Smithsonian exhibition on the Vietnamese-American experience, co-curated by Vu Pham, M.A. '99, Ph.D. '02, will be in Ithaca from Sept. 18 to Dec. 5. (Sept. 7, 2010)
In the fourth Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture Aug. 31, historian Rebecca Flemming of the University of Cambridge focused on infertility, religion and medicine, from ancient times to the present. (Sept. 7, 2010)
A new imaging technique and strategy allows researchers to study how dopant atoms affect electronic disorder in superconductors. The work, led by Cornell's J.C. Séamus Davis, is published in the Aug. 12 issue of Science.
Neuroscience for high schoolers? Why not, says Cornell University neurobiologist Ron Hoy. To prove his point that the subject can be exciting for young people to study, Hoy and a Cornell development team of colleagues and undergraduates have developed a suite of novel, interdisciplinary multimedia teaching tools.
"Ring out the old, ring in the new!" proclaims the inscription on the first of nine bells given to Cornell by Jennie McGraw and played at the university's inauguration day in 1868.
Nearly 200 researchers from universities, private laboratories and government agencies will converge on Cornell June 8-11 for the first conference on computational sustainability. (June 5, 2009)