Odd materials called "ferromagnetic topological insulators" were expected to produce breakthroughs in electronics and physics, but results have failed to materialize. Scanning at the atomic level shows why.
The Kavli Institute at Cornell hosted a workshop May 17 attended by Fred Kavli, chairman of the Kavli Foundation, which first created Cornell's Kavli Institute in 2004. (May 18, 2011)
World-renowned architect Richard Meier '56, B.Arch. '57, is returning to Cornell's campus -- not just for his 50th reunion or to view the progress of his landmark campus building, but for the premier of a video -- "Big Red to…
Americans buy into a socio-economic system of increasingly vast financial inequity because they believe deeply in upward mobility, despite evidence indicating that a relative few have the opportunity to move up.
Computer scientist Johannes Gehrke has an Alexander von Humboldt award to support a collaborative research project at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbruecken, Germany. (Jan. 12, 2011)
Volunteers will give away 450 books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' by Junot Diaz, MFA '95 - across campus and the community April 23. (April 19, 2012)
Susan Hileman, a graduate of the College of Human Ecology, was shot three times by the gunman who also wounded alumna and U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Jan. 8 in Tucson, Ariz. Hileman is in stable condition. (Jan. 10, 2011)
"Hot Jupiters," those large, gaseous planets outside our solar system, can make their suns wobble after they wend their way through their own solar systems, says new Cornell research in Science, Sept. 12.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas and his colleagues will unveil the design for Milstein Hall, an expansion of the Cornell College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 4:30 p.m. in Bailey…
Connie Mabry, who has run Cornell's Commencement weekend for 25 years, shared anecdotes of the process of creating the event for thousands of visitors with Ithaca Rotarians May 8.