News Archive for January 2011
'Cornell Dots' get first trial in humans
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first clinical trial in humans of brightly glowing 'Cornell Dots' to aid in diagnosing and treating cancer. read more
Five faculty get NSF CAREER awards
Itai Cohen, William Dichtel, Tobias Hanrath, Eun-Ah Kim and Cynthia Reinhart-King are recent recipients of National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. read more
Cornell helps start DOE-funded geothermal academy
Cornell is taking a leading role in the country's first National Geothermal Academy, expected to launch this summer with an intensive training program. read more
Johannes Gehrke receives Humboldt award
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. read more
Rowena Lohman receives NASA grant
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. read more
New technology displays math problems on browsers
It's now possible to display math problems online as if they were on a chalkboard, thanks to new technology by Cornell University Library's Project Euclid. read more
Boris Batterman dies at age 80
Boris Batterman, Cornell's Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics Emeritus, died Dec. 14 at his home in San Francisco. He was 80 years old. read more
Jack Oliver, plate tectonics pioneer, dies at 87
John (Jack) E. Oliver, Cornell professor emeritus of earth and atmospheric sciences and a founding contributor to the theory of plate tectonics, died Jan. 5 at his home in Ithaca. read more
Earth is getting dustier, model suggests
The amount of dust in the Earth's atmosphere has doubled over the last century, according to a new study; and the dramatic increase is influencing climate and ecology around the world. read more
Graphene sheets are atomic patchwork quilts
New research shows colorful patchwork quilts that are actually pictures of graphene - one atom-thick sheets of carbon stitched together at tilted interfaces. read more
3-D printing on verge of revolution, Lipson says
3-D printer technology will dramatically change how products are made, designed and consumed, say Cornell professor Hod Lipson and analyst Melba Kurman in a new report. read more
How social groups split into factions
New Cornell research has generated a mathematical description of how social networks under stress evolve into opposing factions. read more
