The College of Engineering is launching a new undergraduate leadership program with a recent gift of $700,000 from an alumnus. Erica Dawson, Ph.D. '04, will be the program's first director. (April 23, 2012)
The Kavli Institute at Cornell hosted a workshop May 17 attended by Fred Kavli, chairman of the Kavli Foundation, which first created Cornell's Kavli Institute in 2004. (May 18, 2011)
Kilowatts found: To enhance efficiency in electric energy transfers from high-voltage grids to your home’s toaster and television, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $3.2 million grant to CNF-user Monolith Semiconductor, an Ithaca-based startup company.
"Hot Jupiters," those large, gaseous planets outside our solar system, can make their suns wobble after they wend their way through their own solar systems, says new Cornell research in Science, Sept. 12.
Researchers have developed a brain-machine interface that adjusts the anesthetic infusion rate to control the level of brain activation in a medically induced coma.
Harvard physicist Lisa Randall will deliver the Hans Bethe lecture May 1. Her talk is titled, 'Knocking on Heaven's Door,' the name of her latest book. (April 11, 2012)
Scientists have developed an inexpensive, environmentally friendly way of synthesizing oxide crystal sheets, which have useful properties for electronics and alternative energy applications. (April 10, 2012)
Scientists have utilized the imaging capabilities of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source to help develop enhanced light-emitting diode displays using bottom-up engineering methods. (Oct. 24, 2012)
A Cornell-developed technology for preparing proteins for X-ray crystallography has made its way into the world marketplace through a licensing agreement with ADC Inc. of Lansing, N.Y.