Researchers show that coating the anode of a lithium-oxygen fuel cell with bromide results in more stable charging and could represent a step toward practical lithium-oxygen energy storage technology.
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded $25,000 to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art for its popular Objects and Their Makers: New Insights educational kits for area schools. The program introduces schoolchildren and their teachers to the arts of other cultures.
Architecture critic Robert Campbell lectured Sept. 12 in honor of Roger Trancik's retirement after 38 years as a Cornell professor of city and regional planning and landscape architecture. (Sept. 23, 2008)
'Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon,' a traveling Smithsonian exhibition on the Vietnamese-American experience, co-curated by Vu Pham, M.A. '99, Ph.D. '02, will be in Ithaca from Sept. 18 to Dec. 5. (Sept. 7, 2010)
In the June 10 Olin Lecture, Christopher Oechsli, president and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, discussed the impact Charles F. Feeney '56 has had at Cornell and around the world.
Five Cornell undergraduates presented original research Nov. 7 at the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program's 2009 regional conference, for students from historically disadvantaged groups. (Nov. 10, 2009)
Minority Cornell graduates returned to campus Nov. 7 to advise current students on how to find careers and enjoy their time on the Hill. (Nov. 9, 2009)
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin announced May 24 the reappointment of Franklin W. Robinson, the Richard J. Schwartz Director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The appointment, which is for five years beginning July 1.
A group of Cornell physicists led by Michael Niemack has joined a group that will use two new telescopes to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background, the universe's earliest measurable light.