With a new smartphone device, you can now take an accurate iPhone camera selfie that could save your life – it reads your cholesterol level in about a minute.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has enlisted engineering professors from Cornell and Columbia to help solve a problem that threatened to cause an extended shutdown of a busy New York City subway line.
Cornell Plantations has partnered with New York City's 92nd Street Y for its 'Changing Earth' lecture series. The seven-part series began in November and will take place monthly through May 2012. (Nov. 29, 2011)
The recent CCA Biennial brought attention to the arts and science at Cornell, including public television coverage of an installation on the Arts Quad by artist Kimsooja and materials scientists.
The award recognizes young scientists with 'highly innovative, impactful, interdisciplinary accomplishments in the life sciences, physical sciences and engineering.' (Nov. 17, 2009)
Charles Aquadro, Laura Harrington and Sean Nicholson are recipients of the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship for outstanding teaching of undergraduates.
The seven-year-old Physics Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) program supports Cornell students considering a career in teaching high school physics. The program has grown to over 60 participants this year.
Last month, international software design company Autodesk gave Cornell one of the largest gifts-in-kind it has ever received: 3-D design, engineering and entertainment software. The software is commercially valued at $51.4 million.
The planet can vibrate like a bell within periods of a few hours, and these oscillations cause gravitational tugs that in turn create the spiral patterns in Saturn's rings, Cornell astronomers said.
Emmanuel Giannelis and others will work with New York-based Primet Precision Materials Inc. to develop a family of novel electrolytes for advanced batteries with improved electrochemical stability. (March 15, 2010)