Campus leaders, students and family members attended a memorial service for the late Peter Meinig, who chaired the Cornell University Board of Trustees 2002-11.
Collaborating across disparate disciplines to tackle the grand challenges facing humanity is intrinsic to Cornell’s unique brand of research innovation.
Researchers have proposed a way to enhance the conductivity of two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks to power density levels comparable to other porous carbon-based electrodes.
Assistant professors Ilana Brito, Iwijn de Vlaminck and Michael Sheehan have all been awarded National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Awards, worth $1.5 million to help fund five years of research.
Winfried Denk, Ph.D. ’89, Karel Svoboda ’88, and David Tank, M.S. ’80, Ph.D. ’83, have won the Brain Prize for their groundbreaking work with two-photon microscopy. All three graduates worked in the laboratory of Watt Webb.
The electron microscope pixel array detector developed by Cornell researchers yields not just an image, but a wealth of information about electrons that create the image and more about the structure of a sample.
The ExxonMobil Foundation has given Cornell $595,970 through its Educational Matching Gifts Program. The gift was presented to President David Skorton April 30 by Jean A. Baderschneider, Ph.D. '78.
Four New York companies have received 2013 JumpStart Program grants for the spring semester, which assists New York state small businesses in developing and improving through university collaborations.
Cornell mathematicians have developed a theoretical model to study the dynamics between 'thinking fast and slow' - the distinction between human cognitive processing that is quick and intuitive, versus slow and rational.
Cornell researchers have discovered that fruit flies stabilize themselves during flight using a control reflex that’s among the fastest in the animal kingdom.