A team led by Tobias Hanrath, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has demonstrated controlled fusion of semiconductor quantum dots within a nanoreactor cage of rusty particles.
Nine Cornell doctoral candidates were inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society in April at the Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education.
Vinay Ambegaokar, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus, has been awarded the 2015 John Bardeen Prize in recognition of his theoretical physics research.
Astronomers have uncovered the cosmological source of a "fast radio burst." Once thought to emanate from within the Milky Way galaxy, the bursts come from 3 billion light-years away.
Peng Chen, the Peter J.W. Debye Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is the recipient of the 2014 Coblentz Award, presented annually to an outstanding molecular spectroscopist under the age of 40 by the Coblentz Society.
The 3-year-old Cornell BEST program is funded by the National Institutes of Health to invent new ways for biomedical graduate students and postdocs to broaden their training.
A newly published examination of reasons for female academics’ ongoing underrepresentation in math-intensive fields analyzes a very long list of purported culprits – before coming to a surprising conclusion.
Cornell leaders are developing tech campus programs under interdisciplinary domains, or hubs, rather than using the traditional university organization of colleges, schools and departments.
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (Jan. 26, 2012)