Squinting close to the beginning of time, Dominik Riechers, Cornell assistant professor of astronomy, has discovered an association of gas-rich galaxies near the infancy of cosmic time. It’s an early epoch – some 12.7 billion years ago – telling a tale that revolves around an exceptionally dusty galaxy called AzTEC-3.
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the president of Iceland, told a Cornell audience how his country remade itself from one of Europe’s poorest into one now financially and environmentally secure.
Eight engineering students from Cornell traveled to Calcha, Bolivia, during summer break for an eight-week bridge-building project during which they developed bonds with the community there.
Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger, leader of a research group at the Max Planck Institute, joins the Cornell astronomy faculty as an associate professor to work on the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe?
Now you don’t see it. Now, you do. Astronomers have discovered a bright, mysterious geologic object – where one never existed – on Cassini mission radar images from Titan, a moon of Saturn.
The American Society of Civil Engineers has named Abena Sackey Ojetayo '07, M.Eng. '09, an engineer with Cornell Facilities Services, to its list of 2013 'New Faces of Civil Engineering.'
Experts in cancer biology and nanotechnology will discuss problems in the clinical and basic science of cancer, and will showcase nanotechnology advances that have led to breakthroughs in research and treatment. (Sept. 15, 2008)