CU team to show off its 100-mpg car-in-progress at fair
A car that gets 100 miles a gallon may sound far-fetched, but the technology is available now, says Cornell's Progressive Automotive X Prize Team. (Aug. 19, 2008)

Three named A.D. White Professors-at-Large
Cornell has appointed three A.D. White Professors-at-Large in the humanities and physical science. Several other nonresident professors will visit the campus for public programs this fall. (Aug. 13, 2008)

CU students train teachers to build virtual worlds
A Cornell student and a recent alumna trained Southern Tier teachers and mentors from Corning Community College to help kids build virtual worlds at the Southern Tier SciFair Summer Camp. (Aug. 13, 2008)

CU's underwater vehicle team competes in San Diego
The team went into the finals of the competition in first place for static judging of its unmanned submarine and placed seventh overall. (Aug. 8, 2008)

Forum features update on particle accelerator
The Energy Recovery Linac, now in planning stages at Cornell, could revolutionize fields from biophysics, chemistry and molecular biology to high pressure physics. (Aug. 7, 2008)

Alyssa Apsel works on better circuits
Alyssa Apsel envisions next-generation circuits to have shrunk to the most infinitesimal of length scales, but with higher efficiency and more predictable properties. (Aug. 6, 2008)

More engineering classes to use computer simulation
A workshop at Cornell July 25-26 will bring together leaders from educational institutions and industry to find ways to integrate simulation technology into the engineering curriculum. (July 25, 2008)

Neil Ashcroft elected to Russian Academy of Sciences
Condensed matter physicist Neil W. Ashcroft, the Horace White Professor of Physics emeritus, has been elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. (June 30, 2008)

President Skorton sits in on Mars rover planning meeting
Skorton got a backstage look at the planning behind NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission during his first meeting with astronomy professor Steve Squyres, the lead scientist for the mission. (June 26, 2008)

Researchers form metal nanoparticles into porous structures
Cornell researchers have developed a method to self-assemble metals into complex nanostructures for catalysis by guiding metal particles into the desired form using soft polymers. (June 26, 2008)

Symposium honors engineering professor Lester Eastman
The symposium was held in honor of Eastman's 60th year at Cornell as a faculty member, researcher and mentor to students. (June 17, 2008)

Efficiency experts seek to save minutes in deploying ambulances
How can ambulances get emergency services to people in need as efficiently as possible? It's a classic operations research question that three Cornell researchers are tackling in groundbreaking ways. (June 16, 2008)

Student engineers break balloon altitude record
The early-career engineers at Lockheed Martin, also Cornell systems engineering master's students, broke the previous amateur altitude record by nearly 5,000 feet. (June 12, 2008)

Arecibo takes part in global collaboration
As part of a global network of observatories, Arecibo helped create an 11,000 km-diameter radio telescope with unparalleled resolution. (June 6, 2008)

Bill and Chelsea Clinton visit Arecibo Observatory
Former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea got a warm welcome from Arecibo Observatory staff during a visit in the run-up to the Puerto Rico Democratic Presidential primary. (June 5, 2008)

Making microwaves on a chip for medical imaging and security
Researchers have devised a method of generating microwaves at up to terahertz frequencies on an ordinary silicon chip at power levels that could be used for skin cancer detection and airport security. (May 29, 2008)

Michelle Wang named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Biophysicist Michelle Wang is the first researcher on Cornell's Ithaca campus to be named an HHMI Investigator, an award that recognizes innovative and promising researchers in the biomedical sciences. (May 28, 2008)

CU faculty to offer insights for water problems in Greece
Cornell faculty members Gail Holst-Warhaft and Tammo Steenhuis will meet with government leaders, activists and academics in Greece this summer to discuss the water-scarcity problem in the Mediterranean. (May 27, 2008)

Diversity Programs in Engineering hands out awards
The annual awards banquet was held May 4 to celebrate achievements of students, organizations and faculty. (May 23, 2008)

New grants to create fabrics that render toxic chemicals harmless
Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza is working with the U.S. government to create fabrics made of functional nanofibers that would decompose toxic industrial chemicals into harmless byproducts. (May 22, 2008)

Eccentric pulsar system challenges theories of binary formation
A sky survey using the Arecibo radio telescope turned up a massive, fast-spinning binary pulsar that could give researchers new insight into the fundamental properties of matter at extreme densities. (May 15, 2008)

Fuel cells: distant dream, but burning with promise
The Cornell Fuel Cell Institute brings together an interdisciplinary team from eight faculty research groups to make fuel cells practical as an everyday source of clean energy. (May 14, 2008)

Cornell launches systems engineering online degree program
The new program, recently approved by New York state, is the first online degree offered by the College of Engineering. (May 14, 2008)

Matthew Zarracina studies systems engineering from Iraq
The U.S. Navy lieutenant and Cornell ROTC instructor is enrolled in an online systems engineering course while deployed in Baghdad. (May 14, 2008)

Derek Warner gets U.S. Navy funding
The civil and environmental engineering assistant professor has received $277,000 from the Office of Naval Research to perform atomic modeling for ships. (May 8, 2008)

Green energy: Alum teaches course on renewable fuel sources
The School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering introduced a new course this year on renewable fuels, taught by Samir Somaiya, executive director of the Godavari Sugar Mills Ltd. in India. (May 7, 2008)

Warren Allmon named Rawlings Professor of Paleontology
Allmon, the first recipient of the Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology, has been teaching at Cornell for the past 15 years as an adjunct associate professor. (May 6, 2008)

A 'squeeze' in cuprates may explain superconducting temperatures
Cornell study has verified a theory that variations in the distance between atoms in cuprate superconductors account for differences in the temperature at which the material begins to superconduct. (May 6, 2008)

Skorton talks science funding with Senate Republicans
Cornell President David Skorton participated in the meeting with other university leaders who are members of the Science Coalition, a national group that advocates for federal scientific research funding. (May 5, 2008)

With CU's help, Saturn steps into the spotlight in New York City
'Saturn: Images From the Cassini-Huygens Mission,' an exhibit of 50 dramatic photographs captured by NASA's Cassini orbiter and the European Space Agency's Huygens lander, is on display through March 2009. (May 2, 2008)

Don Campbell named director of NAIC
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)

Max Zhang uses cities as air-quality laboratories
The assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering studies the nanoparticles emitted from cars, trucks and power plants, and his latest 'lab' is Olympic city Beijing. (May 1, 2008)

Robert Kleinberg wins Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship
The assistant professor of computer science plans to use his $200,000 grant either to bring in a new postdoctoral collaborator or to host an interdisciplinary symposium in his research area. (May 1, 2008)

$25 million CU-Saudi link will boost nanoscale research
A new partnership between Cornell and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia promises to strengthen Cornell's research efforts in energy and sustainability. (April 30, 2008)

To learn computer science, first-year students program robots
An innovative course at Cornell makes beginning computer programming more exciting by letting students program robots. (April 28, 2008)

Former engineering students help local food bank streamline
Three former operations research and information engineering master's students used advanced route optimization software to help a local meals-on-wheels program improve its efficiency. (April 24, 2008)

Cornell hosts joint symposium on accelerator science
Persis Drell, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator and former professor of physics at Cornell, spoke to physicists and physics teachers on the state of national funding for the physical sciences. (April 23, 2008)

Chu calls for international cooperation to fight climate change
Steven Chu, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize for 'development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light,' delivered the 2008 Hans A. Bethe lecture at Cornell April 16. (April 23, 2008)

Engineering alumni give out awards at banquet
Cornell Minesweeper was one of several award recipients at the March 28 banquet, which honored both students and faculty in the College of Engineering. (April 23, 2008)

Manhattan seventh graders converge on Space Sciences
Seventh graders from a Manhattan school visited the astronomy department for two days of all things astronomy. (April 22, 2008)

Partnership agreement brings $2.3 million to Arecibo Observatory
Puerto Rican Governor Anibal S. Acevedo Vila and Arecibo Observatory officials signed an agreement to expand outreach and education to schoolchildren through the Angel Ramos Visitor Center. (April 16, 2008)

Itai Cohen uses physics to study cartilage strain
Assistant professor of physics Itai Cohen studies soft condensed matter, an example of which is human cartilage. One of his goals is to better understand the physics of how cartilage moves. (April 15, 2008)

Sustainability workshop with Tsinghua University is April 29-30
A group of delegates from Tsinghua University will travel to Ithaca to attend the workshop, titled 'Sustainable Development: Water Resources, Energy and the Environment.' (April 11, 2008)

Cornell robot sets a record for distance walking
A Cornell robot that emulates some aspects of human walking has set an unofficial world record by walking nonstop a little over 9 kilometers, or 5.6 miles. (April 4, 2008)

Sometimes it's '300 degrees of separation'
A study of Internet chain letters shows that such messages do not fan out widely, reaching many people in a short time, but instead travel in long straight lines, with the last recipient several hundred steps away from the originator. (April 4, 2008)

Engineering school uses entrepreneurial approach
Sixteen student project teams in the College of Engineering hone their entrepreneurial skills by building vehicles and other projects to enter national competitions. (April 3, 2008)

CU's student-built satellite system is a finalist set for launch
Cornell's CUSat -- a satellite system designed to separate in orbit to photograph each other -- is one of the three finalists for a June launch from the SpaceX launch complex. (April 2, 2008)

Cornell robot falls, fails to break a record, but students learn
An attempt to set an unofficial world record for how far a robot could walk failed the night of March 30, but the team keeps trying. (April 2, 2008)

Three ECE professors receive DARPA young faculty awards
Lenses and prisms for electron waves, combined mechanical and optical oscillators and terahertz frequency generators are 'high-risk' projects at Cornell receiving DARPA Young Faculty Awards. (April 1, 2008)

Nanotechnology and commercialization conference is April 10
The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility will host a workshop and networking reception to highlight success stories from nanotechnology ventures and small-business grants. (April 1, 2008)

Electron spin and orbits in carbon nanotubes are coupled
Researchers hoping to use carbon nanotubes for quantum computing -- in which the spin of a single electron would represent a bit of data -- may have to change their approaches, Cornell physicists say. (March 26, 2008)

Cornell researchers push resonator frequency limit
Cornell scientists are pushing the upper limits of microresonator frequency with a device that generates a 4.5 gigahertz signal, the highest ever achieved in silicon. (March 13, 2008)

Key component of Earth's crust formed from moving molten rock
By studying what were once pockets of hot, melted rock 13 kilometers deep in the Earth's crust 55 million years ago, Cornell scientists are able to explain how granulite, a major component of continental crust, is formed. (March 5, 2008)

Rafael Pass receives NSF CAREER award in computer science
Assistant Professor Rafael Pass has received a five-year, $450,000 award from the National Science Foundation to conduct research that could lead to secure online voting systems and improved Internet security overall. (March 5, 2008)

Plaque in Rockefeller dedicated by American Physical Society
Representatives from the American Physical Society were on campus March 1 to unveil a plaque in Rockefeller Hall, where the Physical Review journal was first published by Cornell physicists in 1893. (March 4, 2008)

Girl Scouts learn about CU's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team
About 80 girls from the Girl Scouts Seven Lakes Council learned about science March 1 when Cornell's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team presented 'Science is All Around Us' in Phillips Hall. (March 4, 2008)

Modified electron microscope identifies atoms
A new type of scanning transmission electron microscope recently installed at Cornell is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms and see how those atoms bond to one another. And in living color. (Feb. 21, 2008)

CU engineering conference to focus on sustainable energy
The 25th annual Cornell Engineering Alumni Association Conference, March 28-29, will focus on alternative energy research and economics. (Feb. 21, 2008)

Small businesses awarded CCMR JumpStart grants
Three businesses in New York state have been selected to receive JumpStart awards with the Cornell Center for Materials Research for this semester. (Feb. 21, 2008)

Frank DiSalvo named a materials research fellow
Frank J. DiSalvo, the J.A. Newman Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and director of Cornell's Center for a Sustainable Future, has been named a fellow of the Materials Research Society. (Feb. 21, 2008)

Fiber-optic booster on a chip
Cornell researchers have demonstrated that fiber-optic signals can be amplified and sharpened on a single photonic microchip, replacing bulky bundles of fiber or electronic amplifiers. (Feb. 19, 2008)

Cornell chemist Jack Freed wins E. Bright Wilson Award
Jack Freed, the Frank and Robert Laughlin Professor of Physical Chemistry, has been honored with the 2008 E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy for his advances in the use of electron spin resonance spectroscopy. (Feb. 19, 2008)

Keck Foundation gives $2.19 million for X-ray technology
Cornell scientists have received a $2.19 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for developing a portable X-ray detector, which will serve as a novel set of 'eyes' for observing dynamic matter. (Feb. 19, 2008)

Hot potatoes spark excitement for chemistry among fourth-graders
Several members of Alpha Chi Sigma, Cornell's chemistry fraternity, went to Belle Sherman Elementary School, Feb. 11 and 12, to teach the children about batteries and metals. (Feb. 19, 2008)

Chemical inventory checked for Department of Homeland Security
Faculty members, researchers and facility managers in charge of campus spaces that use or store chemicals must fill out an online inventory to ensure Cornell's compliance with anti-terrorism standards. (Feb. 14, 2008)

Robert Brown steps down as NAIC director
After more than five years at the helm, Robert L. Brown will step down as director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center at Cornell, which manages the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. (Feb. 13, 2008)

Arecibo astronomers discover first near-Earth triple asteroid
The first near-Earth triple asteroid was discovered this week by astronomers using the radar telescope at Arecibo Observatory. The objects, which are rotating around each other, are about 7 million miles from Earth. (Feb. 13, 2008)

High-Q resonators can measure rarified gas pressure
Cornell researchers have made nanoresonators with a record high quality factor, or 'Q,' that can detect minute changes in mass or gas pressure. (Feb. 13, 2008)

Researchers develop 'one-pot' porous surfaces for fuel cells
Cornell researchers have developed a 'one-pot' process to create porous films of crystalline metal oxides that could lead to more-efficient fuel cells and solar cells. (Jan. 28, 2008)

Arecibo astronomers prepare for asteroid closeup
The Arecibo Observatory will have its sights set on a newly discovered asteroid, 2007 TU24, next week as the object passes within 334,000 miles of Earth. (Jan. 25, 2008)

Cornell-designed water plant changes hands in Honduras
For 18 Cornell students who were spending Jan. 4 to 20 in Honduras working on water plants in small villages, it was perhaps the sweetest moment of all witnessing the ceremonial handover of a completed project. (Jan. 23, 2008)

Researchers induce bonding between lithium and beryllium
A team of three Cornell professors and one recent graduate student has discovered hypothetical conditions in which the elements lithium and beryllium, squeezed together under hundreds of thousands of atmospheres of pressure, bind to form stable -- and possibly superconducting -- alloys. (Jan. 23, 2008)

Cornell joins N.Y. state solar energy consortium
Cornell will join five other universities in providing research support to The Solar Energy Consortium. This research partnership between colleges and solar energy companies will help advance New York's solar industry. (Jan. 18, 2008)

Neutron stars are more massive than previously thought
Neutron stars can be considerably more massive than previously believed, and it is more difficult to form black holes, according to new research developed by using the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. (Jan. 17, 2008)

Distant galaxy holds key ingredients for life, astronomers report
Astronomers from Cornell's Arecibo Observatory radio telescope have detected the molecules methanimine and hydrogen cyanide -- two ingredients that build life-forming amino acids -- in a galaxy some 250 light years away. (Jan. 14, 2008)

CU physicists create nanotrophy to be awarded Super Bowl Sunday
The prize in the 'Nano Bowl' contest, which challenges entrants to create short videos about the physics of football, will award the world's smallest trophy, made by Cornell University nanotechnology experts. (Jan. 9, 2008)

Research sheds light on the mechanics of gene transcription
While some reports have suggested that activated genes move to a specific nuclear location for transcription, Cornell research supports the traditional view that gene activation is not dependent on movement to special locations, or so-called 'transcription factories.' (Jan. 8, 2008)

CU engineer helps art historians authenticate paintings
Engineering's Rick Johnson helps apply technology to authenticate art. He links historians and signal processors to spot forgeries among masters. (Jan. 8, 2008)