Cornell chemist William Dichtel and colleagues have found a way to synthesize an ultra-thin, transparent organic film that could lead to flexible, more affordable solar cells. (April 11, 2011)
NEW YORK -- Just a year after groundbreaking ceremonies, the centerpiece of the Weill Cornell Medical College's (WCMC) multimillion-dollar capital campaign was recently "topped out." The Ambulatory Care and Medical Education Building at 1305 York Ave. at 70th Street will house 330,000 square feet of modern, patient-oriented facilities and amenities, including state-of-the art equipment, a comfortable welcome center and several specialty clinical practices for integrated patient care. The building is scheduled to open in the fall of 2006.
Professors Harold Craighead and Eva Tardos are among 64 new members and nine foreign associates elected to the NAE, among the highest professional distinctions accorded to engineering faculty members. (Feb. 12, 2007)
A gift from Randy '75 and Howard '74, MBA '75, Freedman to Cornell’s anthropology department will allow undergraduates to undertake research projects across the country or around the globe.
Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine is one giant step closer to its goal of acquiring a state-of-the-art linear accelerator for cancer treatment in the Hospital for Animals after receiving a $500,000 Kresge Foundation Science Initiative grant.
The Hon. Art Eggleton, a member of the Parliament of Canada, will visit Cornell University Friday, Nov. 22, to give a talk on "Canada-U.S. Relations in the Post-9/11 Era." The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall from 2:30 to 4 p.m. (November 20, 2002)
Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new strategy for making energy-efficient, reliable nonvolatile magnetic memory devices, which retain information without electric power. (May 4, 2012)
Scientists might soon be able to uncover what gives particles mass and whether there are extra dimensions of space, said Lisa Randall, the spring 2012 Bethe lecturer. (May 4, 2012)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Margaret J. Geller, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will deliver the Bethe Lectures at Cornell University the week of May 6. Geller will give a free public lecture on Tuesday, May 7, at 8 p.m. Her talk, "So Many Galaxies . . . So Little Time," will be in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, and it will include a state-of-the-art graphic voyage through the nearby universe. Geller has produced a film of the same name that depicts the way a scientific group works. She will describe the use of very large telescopes to explore the distant universe in an effort to understand the origins of patterns in the universe.