Steven Strogatz collaborated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers to reveal the vast untapped potential of New York City’s taxi system, with results that could be applied to other urban areas.
Max Zhang, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is the winner of the second annual Engaged Scholar Prize, which recognizes community-based teaching, learning and research.
The 20th annual Bits on our Minds technology showcase brought together approximately 140 students and their cutting-edge projects, from a city bus tracking app to a robot that serves cocktails.
Forty-three high school juniors and seniors teamed up remotely from July 19-23 to build an interconnected system of hardware and software as part of Cornell Engineering’s annual CURIE Academy.
Sibling suns – made famous in "Star Wars" – and the planets around them may be more common than we've thought, and Cornell astronomers are presenting new ideas on how to find them.
In the quest for the perfect solar cell, Cornell materials science research offers quantifiable insight into the complex chemistry of getting it just right. Their work was published Jan. 30 in Nature Communications.
Electron microscope images show how mollusks build the incredibly strong and beautiful material found inside their shells, offering new ideas for man-made materials.
About 5,287 miles from Ithaca, near the banks of Ghana’s Volta River, a primary and junior high school for girls is rising from the collective imagination and brain power of the Cornell University Sustainable Design team.
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)