The Clare Boothe Luce Program, part of the Henry Luce Foundation, has awarded Cornell two two-year fellowships, including tuition and stipend, for women graduate students studying engineering.
The finding, published in Science today, makes Saturn’s rings one of the few locations where scientists have been able to observe these impacts in process.
For the second time in three years, the Cornell Chemical Engineering Car team won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers student car competition, which took place Nov. 7 in Salt Lake City. (Nov. 15, 2010)
Walter Isard, professor emeritus of city and regional planning and economics, has died at age 91. Isard was an influential scholar who founded the fields of regional science and peace science. (Nov. 11, 2010)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found a bright vein of a mineral deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help researchers better understand the history of wet environments on Mars. (Dec. 9, 2011)
A Cornell researcher has uncovered an oddity in the early cosmos: A distant galaxy, born just after the Big Bang, is starting to furiously churn out stars at peak capacity – despite its young age.