Doctoral candidates Chavez Carter, Christian Guzman, Michael Mitchell and Luisa Rosas were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at an April 19-20 conference at Yale University.
Undergraduates from across the country are spending several weeks at Cornell this summer researching topics in accelerator physics or X-ray science thanks to two programs funded by the National Science Foundation.
The Simons Foundation has provided a $60,000 planning grant to develop a structure through which institutions that benefit from and support the online e-print arXiv can participate in its governance. (Oct. 27, 2011)
An experimental breakthrough for studying the structural evolution of organic transistor layers was reported by a joint team of scientists from Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source.
In an example of cross-campus collaboration, a group led by Minglin Ma has developed a unique implant for controlling type 1 diabetes, which affects more than 1 million Americans.
Innovative projects to enhance undergraduate teaching and learning in nine departments have received funding administered by Cornell’s Active Learning Initiative.
Cornell is leading the Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials thanks to a $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
The NSF has awarded Cornell $2.7 million to acquire a cryogenic, aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope. The microscope could revolutionize research in biology, physics and materials science