News Archive for 2012
Cornell a partner in $35M NSF research center
Cornell physicists and engineers are lending their expertise in next-generation nanoscale electronics as part of a new NSF research center. read more
Graduate Students Earn $15,000 Awards for Innovative Solutions to Pet Sterilization
Cornell University and Scripps Institute Students Honored by Found Animals Foundation read more
Cornell Engineering launches leadership program
The College of Engineering is launching a new undergraduate leadership program with a recent anonymous gift of $700,000 from an alumnus. read more
Cornell Names Dean for Roosevelt Island Campus
The Wall Street Journal: Cornell University has appointed its first dean to lead its new engineering and technology school on Roosevelt Island, college officials announced Thursday. read more
The Age of Big Data
The New York Times: Good with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking. read more
An Israeli professor's 'Eureqa' moment
Haaretz: Haifa-born Prof. Hod Lipson and his colleagues have created a computer program that generates mathematical formulas which explain various scientific phenomena. In essence, he argues, it can... read more
Researchers create 2-D glass, by accident
Science: Researchers have created the world's thinnest pane of glass—and it looks oddly familiar. The glass, made of silicon and oxygen, formed accidentally when the scientists were making graphene,... read more
Michael King presents tumor trapping tech
The Columbus Dispatch: BME Prof. Mike King presents at the Circulating Tumor Cell, Conference in San Diego. read more
Print your own counterfeit sneakers?
MailOnline: As Pirate Bay starts offering 'blueprints' of 3D objects to 'steal,' MAE Prof. Hod Lispon sees a big future for 3D printing. read more
Portable device to detect disease in 30 minutes
Futurity: BEE Prof. Dan Luo has devised a method of “amplifying” very small samples of pathogen DNA, RNA, or proteins using synthetic DNA. ECE Prof Edwin Kan designed a computer chip that quickly... read more
High-performance computing tackles hepatitis
The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing has received a High-Performance Computing Innovation Excellence Award for crunching hepatitis C virus data on its experimental MATLAB computing resource. read more
Engineers hide a moment in time
Cornell researchers have demonstrated a 'temporal cloak,' hiding a moment in time during the transport of information by a beam of light. read more
Now you see it, now you don't: time cloak created
Fox News/AP: It's one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter's mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker. read more
