Michal Lipson, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received a 2010 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences. (Dec. 2, 2010)
As part of the Cornell GK-12 Grass Roots program, four Cornell graduate students and two local teachers traveled to India to exchange best practices in science education with Indian schoolteachers.
Physics graduate students have grand ideas for what they might find once their detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), goes back online later this year.
A newly approved standard for 3-D printing file interchange will greatly enhance 3-D printing capabilities, says Cornell's Hod Lipson, who led the development of the standard. (July 21, 2011)
Frank J. DiSalvo, the J.A. Newman Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and director of Cornell's Center for a Sustainable Future, has been named a fellow of the Materials Research Society.
Cornell's leadership in sustainability efforts and student tuition grants were among the issues raised during a visit by U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-22nd District), March 21. (March 22, 2011)
John Leggett, of Canterbury, N.H., received an Excellence in Integrated Pest Management Award from the New York State IPM Program at Cornell for development of automated weather instruments.
Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced $15 million in Upstate Revitalization Initiative funding for the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, for storage ring and X-ray beam upgrades and job creation.