Three Cornell researchers with expertise in very different fields are collaborating on a $1.5 million NSF grant to create computer models of large networks that don't throw out small details. (Feb. 25, 2009)
The Cornell Theory Center has fired up its newest and fastest high-performance computer, called the Velocity-3 Cluster, or V3, capable of speeds up to 2.1 teraflops. (November 15, 2005)
Quick dissipation of heat at the most fundamental scales is just one way that the work of CNF research associate Derek Stewart may someday change the face of computing and electronics. (Dec. 23, 2008)
Astronomy professor Donald Campbell will succeed Robert Brown as director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, the Cornell center that manages NSF's Arecibo Observatory, effective June 1. (May 1, 2008)
Jean Hunter, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, has devised a way to deal with rotten, smelly garbage in the one place where you can't throw out the trash - space. (Nov. 17, 2008)
Cornell’s pioneering, engineering women – Kate Gleason, Nora Stanton Blatch and Olive Wetzel Dennis – advanced the science of their discipline beyond all expectation of their male peers.
Two researchers have received five-year, $2.5 million Director's Pioneer Awards from the National Institutes of Health, and three other major grants were awarded to faculty members, the NIH announced Sept. 24. (Sept. 24, 2009)
The 'tree' simulates the process of transpiration, the cohesive capillary action that allows real trees to wick moisture upward to their highest branches. (Sept. 10, 2008)
Engineering students on the AguaClara Project Team pitched the idea of a water plant to the town of Ciudad Espana during the students' two-week stay in Honduras, Jan. 4-20. (Feb. 13, 2008)