Many of the large problems that confront society are multidisciplinary and high-performance computating can contribute in essential ways to their solution, Malvin H. Kalos, director of the Cornell Theory Center, told a congressional panel last week.
The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability is celebrating its 10th anniversary by focusing with renewed urgency on more powerful ways to translate knowledge into action.
Researchers at Cornell have discovered that seemingly random turbulent flows, which are the flow of a fluid in which velocity varies rapidly and irregularly, actually have an astonishing structure. (June 13, 2011)
The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation has committed $3 million for the new Marriott Student Learning Center in the School of Hotel Administration. (Sept. 26, 2011)
Actress Jennifer Harmon, 71, is mentoring Weill Cornell medical students and sharing experiences as a patient through the Longitudinal Educational Experience Advancing Patient Partnerships program.
Science Spectrum magazine has named the top minorities in science for 2005, which includes two Cornell researchers: Kevin T. Kornegay, Cornell associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of Cornell Broadband Communications Research laboratory, and Lisa Staiano-Coico, dean of the College of Human Ecology.
Grape growers and food processors benefit from water sensors for accurate moisture readings. Cornell researchers have developed a fingertip-sized sensor that is a hundred times more sensitive than current devices, and they hope to produce it for as little as $5 each.
On Sept. 8, the Student Assembly unanimously approved a resolution that will create an ad-hoc committee to 'unite students in support of the NYC tech campus." (Sept. 9, 2011)