Cornell senior David L. Kaplan, of Swampscott, Mass., is the only Cornell student this year to win the prestigious Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship.
Three advanced technologies are about to expand the horizons of health care, speakers at the 12th annual Cornell Biotechnology Symposium, "Frontiers in Biomedicine," will predict on Oct. 15 from 9 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. in the ground floor conference room of the Biotechnology Building at Cornell.
Move over, quantum dots. Make way for the new kids on the block -- brightly glowing nanoparticles dubbed "Cornell dots." By surrounding fluorescent dyes with a protective silica shell, researchers have created fluorescent nanoparticles with possible applications in displays, biological imaging, optical computing, sensors and microarrays such as DNA chips. (May 19, 2005)
Science is part of our daily lives – the way we understand the natural world, the technologies we use and the decisions we make about our health and the environment.
Biddy Martin leaves a legacy of academic achievement at Cornell. Chronicle writer Daniel Aloi interviewed her earlier this month about her Cornell years and her new job as chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Aug. 26, 2008)
Through research, coursework, fellowships, leadership initiatives, business incubators, community outreach, business plan competitions and more, an evolving entrepreneurial ecosystem has emerged at Cornell.
Cornell will be one of 15 universities participating in a new project to support women studying science and engineering. Called "MentorNet," the project will use the Internet and electronic mail to connect female engineering, science and math students.
An oversight committee for Arecibo Observatory, the national astronomical facility in Puerto Rico, has been established to act as a management link between Cornell, which manages the huge radio telescope, and the U.S. funding agency, the National Science Foundation.
Saturn's mysterious moon, Phoebe, which has puzzled astronomers for more than a century because of its dark surface and retrograde orbit, has great geological variety, and probably has large areas of exposed water ice, Cornell senior astronomy researcher Peter Thomas told a press conference at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Cornell University's collection of 220 mechanical teaching models from the 19th century, the largest such collection in the world, soon will be available on the Internet to students and teachers. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Cornell University Library a $725,088 grant to create a digital collection of the historical machines for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). (October 16, 2002)