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.
At a March 22 workshop aimed to encourage grade-school girls to pursue science and technology, Girl Scouts decoded secret messages and investigated a scene to earn scouting detective badges, among other activities.
Engineers at Cornell and clinicians at Weill Cornell Medical College have created a comprehensive mouse model of exactly how colorectal tumors behave in real life, not just in a petri dish.
Physicist John Carlstrom will offer a series of Hans Bethe lectures touching on his work in the Antarctic, where he scans the skies for cosmic radiation through the South Pole Telescope project. (Sept. 25, 2012)
Chemistry's Hector Abruna was chosen to present the 2010 S.C. Lind Lectures by the American Chemical Society of East Tennessee. He is also the 2011 recipient of the Faraday Medal. (Nov. 15, 2010)
With so few available academic jobs, Cornell will start a NIH-funded pilot program to help train life sciences graduate students and postdocs for nonacademic positions. A kickoff event is March 18.
Striving to achieve safer, longer-lasting batteries for the modern world’s trappings – automobiles, cell phones, computers, autonomous robots – Cornell chemical engineers have added salt to their chemistry.
George Paul Hess, professor emeritus of biochemistry and a pioneer in the study of a class of proteins called ion channels that allow specific small molecules to enter cells, died Sept. 9.
Steven W. Squyres has been named chairman of the NASA Advisory Council, an assembly of experts that offers guidance and policy advice to the administrator of America's space agency. (Nov. 7, 2011)