Physics professor Robert Thorne's unique crystallization plate, which was developed and tested at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, was part of April's historic SpaceX launch.
The Physical Sciences Library in Clark Hall will close at the end of 2009, but the library's presence will continue to be a portal for scholarly resources and services.
For the ever-shrinking transistor, there may be a new game in town. Cornell researchers have demonstrated promising electronic performance from a semiconducting compound called molybdenum sulfide.
Shawkat Toorawa, associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies, will help develop a comprehensive new Library of Arabic Literature, with English translations of classical and other Arabic works. (Dec. 1, 2010)
A $100 million federal research initiative aimed at revolutionizing understanding of the human brain received key scientific direction from researchers at Cornell’s Kavli Institute for Nanoscale Science.
Africana and English faculty member Carol Boyce Davies has received an award from the Association of Black Women Historians for her historical biography of radical intellectual Claudia Jones. (Oct. 8, 2008)
Recent changes in the provost’s office have set the stage for better implementation of technology and teaching initiatives, blending them behind the scenes in a way that matches, and enhances, how they complement each other throughout Cornell.
Anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and Margaret McFall-Ngai, a biologist and ecologist, will enliven Cornell's intellectual and cultural life as newly appointed A.D. White Professors-at-Large. (Aug. 15, 2011)
The three-year, $318,000 grant from the NASA New Investigator Program will support Lohman's study of subsiding deltas and sea level rise worldwide with space-based geodetic observations. (Jan. 12, 2011)
Timothy Campbell, professor and chair of Romance studies, has been named editor of a new Fordham University Press series on political thought, entitled 'Commonalities.' (Sept. 27, 2011)