Juan Hinestroza has helped develop transistors using natural cotton fibers, which could lead to smarter, highly functional clothing and perhaps even cotton-based circuits and computers. (Oct. 26, 2011)
State weather watchers are looking for amateur weather buffs to measure and record the daily precipitation that falls in their backyards. Training for volunteers will be held March 29 at Cornell. (March 18, 2008)
Astronomer Steven Squyres, who helped lead the Rover missions to Mars, is one of six crew members on a 13-day undersea NASA training mission off Key Largo to simulate an asteroid mission. (Oct. 20, 2011)
Steven Strogatz, Thomas Gilovich and Dr. Joseph Fins have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, along with Sanford Weill '55, chair of the Board of Overseers of Weill Cornell. (April 18, 2012)
Cornell computer scientists are sharing in a $7.5 million National Science Foundation grant under the agency's Future Internet Architectures program. (Aug. 30, 2010)
The goal for the sophomore mechanical engineering students: build a motor powered only by compressed air that would pack enough punch to push a flat cart up a slight incline. (May 4, 2009)
Cornell professor and graduate student develop computer analysis to help New York City bike-sharing system improve efficiency and put bikes where they will get the most use. Student wins award for paper on subject.
Professors Saurabh Mehta and David Erickson, the co-founders of Cornell's Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Global Health and Technology (INSiGHT) discuss radical collaboration and using technology to solve global health problems.
Julie Nucci proposes an integrated approach to solving the STEM pipeline crisis, which includes keeping the CNS Institute for Physics Teachers alive. (Oct. 1, 2012)