Cornell's ChemE Car Wins First Place at National Competition
Competing in Salt Lake City, UT at the Annual Student Conference, over 30 student teams from around the world will be racing their chemically powered vehicles Read more
Competing in Salt Lake City, UT at the Annual Student Conference, over 30 student teams from around the world will be racing their chemically powered vehicles Read more
Yahoo! News: Marijuana is a natural candidate for experimentation — and not just the kind that leaves New York Times columnists in hallucinatory states for eight hours. Because it’s often grown indoors, and growing it legally is just becoming legal in a few states around the country, the plant is almost begging to be messed with. And, if those experiments go well, they could affect more than just Mary-Jane. Read more
Nearly half of the more than 900 January degree candidates took part in the Dec. 19 recognition ceremony, held before thousands of family and friends in Barton Hall. Read more
ScienceDaily: Graduate student Haining Wang came up with an inventive way of measuring the near-instantaneous electrical current generated using a light detector that he and a team of Cornell engineers made using an atomically thin material. Read more
A team of Cornell researchers has used cyclodextrin, the same material found in the air freshener Febreze, to develop a technique that could revolutionize the water-purification industry. Read more
A Cornell graduate student employed two-pulse photovoltaic correlation to measure the speed of his team's ultrafast photodetector in research published in Nature Communications, Nov. 17. Read more
Cornell hopes to bring nanotech to young students in the area with the establishment of CNF Ambassadors, an outreach program being run by the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility. Read more
Cornell researchers are teaching robots to watch instructional videos and derive a series of step-by-step instructions to perform a task. Read more
Nearly all electronics and electricity distribution infrastructures—including electric motors, power adapters, solar power plants, and smart grids—can benefit from a gallium nitride (GaN) power diode created by a team of engineers at Cornell. Read more
Research from Xing/Jena lab highlighted in Semiconductor Today. Read more