CU search-and-rescue robots to compete internationally
In early November, Cornell was named one of 10 semifinalists in the first Multi-Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge. (Nov. 23, 2009)

TV host Katie Brown '85 credits Cornell for her success
During a visit to campus Nov. 19, Katie Brown '85 drew on her experiences becoming an entrepreneur to inspire students to consider nontraditional career paths. (Nov. 23, 2009)

Cornell team wins regional programming contest
Cornell teams placed first, fifth and 18th out of 51 teams at the 2009 ACM Greater New York regional programming contest; the first-place team will compete in the international finals. (Nov. 19, 2009)

Stimulus grant will improve physics arXiv
Stimulus funding will enhance Cornell's e-print arXiv of scientific papers to help users identify a work's main concepts, see research reports in context and easily find related work. (Nov. 17, 2009)

Paul Chirik wins Blavatnik Award
The award recognizes young scientists with 'highly innovative, impactful, interdisciplinary accomplishments in the life sciences, physical sciences and engineering.' (Nov. 17, 2009)

Stimulus money to improve biological imaging
Professor Warren Zipfel hopes to make fluorescence lifetime imaging up to 1,000 times faster and simpler to implement. (Nov. 16, 2009)

Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects
Engineering researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers. (Nov. 16, 2009)

100 mpg team works on next stage of competition
Cornell's competition vehicle, vying for a share of the $10 million prize, is now being test driven. (Nov. 16, 2009)

Researchers invent new method for graphene growth
A Cornell research team has invented a simple way to make graphene electrical devices by growing the graphene directly onto a silicon wafer. (Nov. 9, 2009)

Compressing photonic signals for greater bandwidth
An ingenious method to time-compress optical signals could enable optical communication systems to carry many more bits per second. (Nov. 3, 2009)

Two grad students earn Intel fellowships
Shuang Zhao and Mark Cianchetti have each received a Ph.D. Fellowship Award from Intel Corp., which recognizes their potential as future technology leaders. (Nov. 3, 2009)

Researchers bring noise to virtual worlds
Computer scientists have developed a method to synthesize the sounds of cymbals, falling garbage cans and lids, and plastic water-cooler bottles and recycling bins. (Oct. 27, 2009)

Jonathan Butcher receives young investigator award
The Biomedical Engineering Society honored Jonathan Butcher, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, with the Rita Schaffer Memorial Young Investigator Award earlier this month. (Oct. 27, 2009)

Cornell to lead new cancer research center
The $13 million Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis will focus on using nanobiotechnology and other related physical science approaches to advance research on cancer. (Oct. 27, 2009)

Students demonstrate flux pinning in low gravity
A team of Cornell researchers recently tested their work on the mysterious physical phenomenon of flux pinning aboard a near-zero gravity aircraft. (Oct. 27, 2009)

ARRA funds help nanoscale facility with equipment
The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility has received $1.38 million in federal stimulus funds to help with equipment upgrades. (Oct. 27, 2009)

Book: Women opt out of math fields for flexibility
In a new book, 'The Mathematics of Sex,' Cornell professors Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams discuss why women are underrepresented in the math-intensive fields of science. (Oct. 27, 2009)

NIH grants fund studies on women in science fields
Two Cornell research teams have each received National Institutes of Health grants to identify factors influencing the careers of women in biomedical and behavioral sciences and engineering. (Oct. 22, 2009)

Two students are finalists in inventors contest
Artificial tissues with an embedded vascular system and a skull base sealer were two Cornell student inventions honored as finalists in the 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Chicago, Oct. 18-20. (Oct. 21, 2009)

Society of Women Engineers wins national award
The Cornell Society of Women Engineers received the Gold Level Award for Outstanding Collegiate Section at the national SWE conference held Oct. 15-17 in Long Beach, Calif. (Oct. 21, 2009)

Craighead wins nano research honor from UPenn
The University of Pennsylvania's Nano/BioInterface Center has presented its annual Award for Research Excellence in Nanotechnology to Harold Craighead. (Oct. 21, 2009)

Cornell 100 mpg car makes the cut in competition
Cornell's 100+ MPG Team is one of 43 that have made it to the next stage of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize Competition, contest officials announced Oct. 19. (Oct. 20, 2009)

Stimulus funds support creation of thin electronics
Cornell scientists have invented a reliable way of processing organic devices with a patent-pending process called orthogonal lithography. (Oct. 20, 2009)

New Honduran water plant celebrates groundbreaking
AguaClara, a program in civil and environmental engineering in which students design municipal drinking water plants, celebrated the groundbreaking of its fifth full-scale facility last month. (Oct. 20, 2009)

Car companies bring fuel-cell cars to campus
For Cornell's second annual Fuel Cell Ride and Drive, representatives from Toyota, GM and Mercedes-Benz publicly displayed each company's hydrogen fuel-cell car prototype. (Oct. 20, 2009)

Math students to compete in modeling contest
The Cornell Mathematics Contest in Modeling, scheduled this year for Nov. 6-10, is a race to find answers to a real-world question. (Oct. 19, 2009)

Don't make all the cuts to education, Hoffmann says
Roald Hoffmann argues that the system of funding graduate education must change, in light of cuts to university education budgets even as research funds increase. (Oct. 16, 2009)

Friends celebrate Yervant Terzian's 70th birthday
At a symposium and birthday party Oct. 9-11, Terzian received tributes, reminiscences and, of course, gifts, including the announcement of a $100,000 endowment for a lectureship series named for him. (Oct. 13, 2009)

Scientists work to free Mars rover Spirit
In the past several weeks, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory finished experimentation on methods to get the rover Spirit unstuck from its location near a plateau called Home Plate. (Oct. 12, 2009)

Jamie Lloyd on the lookout for exoplanets
The Cornell assistant professor of astronomy works on instrumentation that searches the night skies for planets outside our solar system, called extrasolar planets. (Oct. 12, 2009)

Cornell engineering named No. 4 for Hispanics
In its September issue, Hispanic Business Magazine named Cornell's College of Engineering the No. 4 graduate school nationwide for Hispanic students. (Oct. 12, 2009)

Richard N. White dies at age 75
Richard N. 'Dick' White, the James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering Emeritus, died Oct. 4 at the age of 75. (Oct. 12, 2009)

CU synchrotron played role in Nobel winner's work
Chemistry Nobel laureate Ada Yonath did formative work on well-diffracting ribosome crystals as a user of the Cornell synchrotron during the 1980s. (Oct. 9, 2009)

Engineering college hits diversity milestone
This year's freshman class in the College of Engineering is 37 percent female, putting the college on track to surpass a goal set five years ago to increase diversity at the college. (Oct. 7, 2009)

Steve Squyres wins Sagan medal for outreach
Squyres, principal scientific investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover mission, has received the 2009 Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society. (Oct. 5, 2009)

Self-driving car will get smarter with stimulus funding
Cornell's self-driving car - and Segways - will soon to become safer and more talented, as a test bed for new research in robotics and artificial intelligence. (Oct. 5, 2009)

Robert Langer '70 on three decades of biomedicine
At a Sept. 30 lecture, Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, discussed his career as a biomedical engineer who used his knowledge of materials science to fight disease. (Oct. 1, 2009)

Report calls Arecibo capabilities 'unmatched'
The Arecibo Observatory provides 'unmatched precision and accuracy' in detecting asteroids or comets that could hit the Earth, says a report by the National Academy of Sciences. (Sept. 29, 2009)

Birds fly more efficiently than airplanes, study shows
According to a new Cornell study, an optimized flapping wing could actually require 27 percent less power than its optimal steady-flight counterpart at small scales. (Sept. 29, 2009)

Roald Hoffmann explores novel chemical properties
The chemistry Nobel laureate has received an extra year tagged onto his regular three-year research grant, thanks to federal stimulus funds. (Sept. 28, 2009)

Five faculty receive NSF early career awards
Five more Cornell faculty members have received Faculty Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation, some with federal stimulus funding. (Sept. 28, 2009)

Faculty researchers win prestigious NIH grants
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)

Computation helps predict heat transfer in diamond
Cornell researcher Derek Stewart and collaborators have calculated the exact mechanism by which diamond conducts heat, a breakthrough that could lend insight into many fields, including electronics. (Sept. 21, 2009)

NSF grant supports sustainable materials research
A new grant from the National Science Foundation will support 30 graduate students working in the Cornell Center for Materials Research on the development of materials to advance sustainable living. (Sept. 15, 2009)

$19M in stimulus funding supports synchrotron research
Nearly $19 million in funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is supporting the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell Electron Storage Ring and the planned Energy Recovery Linac. (Sept. 14, 2009)

Environmental engineering degree now accredited
Now students can major in environmental engineering and graduate with an accredited degree in that field, which also qualifies them to sit for the Fundamentals of Engineering examination. (Sept. 14, 2009)

JumpStart aids four upstate businesses
Four New York small businesses have been selected to receive technical assistance from Cornell faculty under the JumpStart program. (Sept. 11, 2009)

Carbon nanotubes could make efficient solar cells
Cornell researchers fabricated, tested and measured a simple solar cell called a photodiode, formed from an individual carbon nanotube. (Sept. 10, 2009)

Chemists create protein structure database
Any chemist with access to the Internet can now use a powerful tool, the CheShift server, to help them accurately identify the structure of a protein. (Sept. 9, 2009)

Paul Kintner named a Jefferson fellow
The professor of electrical and computer engineering will advise the U.S. government on GPS, space weather and other defense-related topics this year as a State Department Jefferson Science Fellow. (Sept. 9, 2009)

Climate, energy lectures targeted to undergrads
A new bi-weekly lecture series, specially tailored for undergraduate students, will focus on sustainability, energy and environmental systems. It's slated for Mondays, 7:30 p.m., beginning Sept. 7. (Sept. 3, 2009)

Program brings grad fellows, area teachers together
A National Science Foundation grant is allowing science teachers from rural school districts to assist Cornell biomedical engineering graduate students with a research project this summer. (Sept. 1, 2009)

Superconductor 'fingerprint' at high temperatures
New measurements at Cornell have shown that 'high-temperature' superconductors may have the potential to go even higher, offering the possibility of creating room-temperature superconductors. (Aug. 27, 2009)

Five faculty members receive NSF early career awards
Rachel Bean, Peter Diamessis, Matthias Liepe, Anders Ryd and Kyle Shen have received National Science Foundation Early Career Development Awards to fund specific research projects. (Aug. 27, 2009)

Martinez, Tang receive IBM Faculty Awards
The Faculty Award Program is a worldwide competition intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities and those in IBM research, development and service organizations. (Aug. 26, 2009)

CU scientists helping design linear collider
The International Linear Collider is garnering key design insights from Cornell scientists, who are reconfiguring Cornell's electron storage ring into a major ILC component called a damping ring. (Aug. 25, 2009)

Systems engineering distance learners visit campus
For the second year in a row, program leaders brought first-semester distance learning master's students to campus for a weeklong, intensive course called Leadership Laboratory. (Aug. 25, 2009)

Scientists use synchrotron to reveal lost painting
The colors of a 1919 painting by N.C. Wyeth have finally come to light, thanks to cutting-edge technologies developed at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source. (Aug. 20, 2009)

Solar house ready to leave lab for state fair test
After several months of construction, engineering and design work, Cornell's 2009 Solar Decathlon house will debut to the public Aug. 27 at the Great New York State Fair. (Aug. 17, 2009)

World's tiniest laser opens doors for miniaturization
Researchers have modified nanoparticles known as 'Cornell dots' to make the world's smallest laser - so small it could be incorporated into microchips to serve as a light source for photonic circuits. (Aug. 17, 2009)

Three on faculty named chemical society fellows
The American Chemical Society has cited Cornell Professors Roald Hoffmann, Christopher Ober and Harold Scheraga with 'true excellence in their contributions to the chemical enterprise.' (Aug. 3, 2009)

100 mpg car taking shape over the summer
A group of Cornell students are working day and night to get their full-size, fuel-efficient, plug-in hybrid vehicle ready for on-road testing Sept. 1 in preparation for the Automotive X Prize Competition. (July 29, 2009)

New eCornell course teaches system design
Cornell's distance-learning subsidiary eCornell will launch a new online certificate program in systems design called 'A Systems Approach to Product and Service Design.' (July 24, 2009)

Beijing air quality improved during Olympics
The air in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics was cleaner than the previous year's, due to aggressive efforts to curtail traffic and increase emissions standards, according to a Cornell study. (July 23, 2009)

Astronomers, public remember Apollo landing
The July 18 anniversary celebration featured a panel discussion with Cornell astronomers, who recounted the significance of the Apollo 11 moon landing and layered it with historical context. (July 20, 2009)

Tracking the life and death of news
Using online versions of the news, Cornell computer scientists have managed to track and analyze the way stories rise and fall in popularity. (July 13, 2009)

Baja racing team's innovative design tops competition
The student project team, which designs, builds and drives an off-road vehicle that can withstand the punishment of rough terrain, came in first for design at the Baja Wisconsin competition in June. (July 9, 2009)

Two alumni win 2009 Marconi Prize
Andrew R. Chraplyvy and Robert W. Tkach, who have been research partners for more than two decades, will receive the $100,000 award for their research into optical fiber nonlinearities. (July 9, 2009)

'Lab on a chip' to measure water stress in plants
Embedded microsensors being developed at Cornell will measure water stress in grapevines and will help vintners strike the precise balance between drought and overwatering. (July 6, 2009)

Jim Bell to speak on 'Water on Planets' in Rio
Bell, who leads the Pancam team for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, will give one of four invited talks at the International Astronomical Union's general assembly, Aug. 3-14 in Rio de Janeiro. (July 6, 2009)

Three engineering faculty invited to NAE symposium
The 15th annual symposium will feature 88 engineers between the ages of 30 and 45 who are performing 'exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines.' (July 2, 2009)

Stephen Pope receives APS fluid dynamics prize
The highest honor awarded by the American Physical Society in fluid dynamics, the prize recognizes outstanding achievements over a career. (July 2, 2009)

500th paper on CLEO research submitted
The paper was submitted to Physical Review D and describes precise measurements that are key to understanding fundamental parameters in elementary particle theory. (June 30, 2009)

Families tour Wilson Lab, ERL prototype
The hallways of Wilson Lab, home to Cornell's synchrotron radiation facility and electron storage ring, were open to all ages during the public event on June 27. (June 29, 2009)

Researchers connect shuttle plume, 1908 explosion
The mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering Earth's atmosphere, says new Cornell research. (June 24, 2009)

Congress told U.S. 'faces serious earthquake risk'
In June 11 testimony, Professor Thomas O'Rourke, an expert on the effect of earthquakes on infrastructure, urged Congress to continue and expand funding for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program. (June 18, 2009)

Wilson Lab to host open house
Visitors of all ages can participate in a host of physics-related activities at the Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory Open House, June 27, 1-4 p.m. (June 15, 2009)

More basic cybersecurity research is critical
Federal expenditures on cybersecurity research are 'tiny compared to the severity of the threat' and are too focused on plugging holes, Cornell computer scientist Fred Schneider told Congress June 10. (June 10, 2009)

Accelerator scientists to attend ERL workshop
More than 170 scientists from around the world will converge on Cornell's campus for the third international Energy Recovery Linac Workshop, June 8-12. (June 5, 2009)

Redistributing farm topsoil is goal of ORIE project
For their 2008-09 master of engineering project, four operations research students set out to optimize the redistribution of topsoil over a farm in Iowa. (June 3, 2009)

Making realistic sounds for computer animation
Cornell researchers are developing ways to simulate sounds in real time, synchronized with computer graphic images. (June 1, 2009)

Students to help rural teachers communicate science
Graduate students will spend the summer and upcoming school year working with area teachers on science curricula, supported by a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to Cornell. (May 29, 2009)

Victoria Crater shows rich geological history
The Mars rover Opportunity's two-year exploration of Victoria Crater has yielded a wealth of information about the planet's history. On the other side of the planet, Spirit is stuck in Martian soil. (May 22, 2009)

Metal sheets with DNA framework may enable nanocircuits
Using DNA not as a genetic material but as a structural support, researchers have created thin sheets of gold nanoparticles. The work could prove useful for making thin transistors or other electronic devices. (May 19, 2009)

DNA molecules can detect pathogens, deliver drugs
Cornell researchers have created new DNA molecules that can detect pathogens and deliver drugs to cells when they form long chains called polymers. (May 19, 2009)

Studying graphene to replace silicon in microchips
Cornell shares in a $1.5 million grant that will study how graphene can be fabricated into large sheets suitable for use in microchips. (May 19, 2009)

NBTC to co-host Dublin nanotechnology workshop
Six faculty members and seven postdoctoral associates and graduate students at Cornell's Nanobiotechnology Center will present research advances in such areas as ultrasensitive sensors and diagnostic devices. (May 18, 2009)

Chirik receives Humboldt Foundation award
Paul Chirik, the Peter J.W. Debye Professor of Chemistry, has received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany. (May 14, 2009)

Shrinking 'ridiculous' data sets to manageable size
With a half-million dollar Office of Naval Research grant, a Cornell statistician will shrink massive data sets into manageable approximations to detect Internet glitches and support machine learning. (May 13, 2009)

A 'cloaking device' -- it's all done with mirrors
Somewhat the way Harry Potter can cover himself with a cloak and become invisible, Cornell researchers have developed a device that can make it seem that a bump in a carpet, or in any flat surface, isn't there. (May 12, 2009)

Eight professors named inaugural SIAM fellows
The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics honors members recognized by their peers as distinguished contributors to the discipline. (May 11, 2009)

Small Times ranks Cornell nanotechnology
Small Times magazine's annual rankings of institutions for nanotechnology research and innovation have once again placed Cornell in the top 10 of each of six categories. (May 11, 2009)

Stimulus grants boost energy research and jobs
Cornell researchers have won federal stimulus funding for three projects that will help meet the nation's future energy needs, with additional state support for one project. (May 7, 2009)

Kleinberg wins $150,000 computer science prize
Computer scientist Jon Kleinberg has received the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences for his contributions to improving Web search techniques and studies of networking. (May 5, 2009)

Engineering students test air motors in Duffield
The goal for the sophomore mechanical engineering students: build a motor powered only by compressed air that would pack enough punch to push a flat cart up a slight incline. (May 4, 2009)

Frozen helium-4 may be an unusual 'superglass'
Frozen helium-4 that flows without friction may be a superglass rather than a crystalline supersolid, according to Cornell researchers. (April 30, 2009)

Applying squeeze could lead to 'instant on' memory
Researchers have deposited strontium titanate on silicon in such a way that the silicon squeezes it into a ferroelectric state -- a result that could prove key to low-power, high-efficiency electronic memory devices. (April 16, 2009)

Pinpointing catalytic reactions on carbon nanotubes
Cornell researchers have shown that catalytic reactions on carbon nanotubes occur at unique sites, which could lead to a new way to make cleaner fuels. (April 16, 2009)

Weills boost capital campaign with $170M cash gift
Joan and Sanford Weill and the Weill Family Foundation have accelerated a previous pledge to the university with a $170 million cash payment. Their donation will aid the $4 billion capital campaign. (April 8, 2009)

Engineering conference features grad student work
Graduate students presented their work in Duffield Hall April 3 at the revamped and renamed Cornell Engineering Research Conference. (April 7, 2009)

Schaffer wins biomedical engineering teaching award
Chris Schaffer, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been awarded the 2009 Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. (April 3, 2009)

Computer derives natural laws by observation
Cornell researchers have taught a computer to derive natural laws from observation of events in the real world - without any prior scientific knowledge on the part of the computer. (April 2, 2009)

Alum targets medical condition afflicting 2 million women
Seth Cochran '00, M.Eng. '01, has started a nonprofit called Operation OF, now being piloted in Uganda, dedicated to ending obstetric fistula worldwide. (April 2, 2009)

New Cornell biofuels lab: Turning bales into barrels
Cornell just opened its new $6 million Biofuels Research Laboratory, where Cornell scientists and students from across the university are examining sustainable and economical biofuel production. (April 1, 2009)

Citizen scientists enlisted to help find pulsars
In the search for pulsars, a grand-scale sky survey at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is now taking advantage of the combined processing power of personal computers around the world. (March 25, 2009)

DeLisa invents protein readout method for cells
A new genetic-engineering technique invented by Cornell researcher Matthew DeLisa could pave the way for creating and cataloging disease-specific antibodies in the lab. (March 24, 2009)

Three on faculty receive NSF early career awards
Lara Estroff, Daniel Cosley and Maxim Perelstein have received 2009 Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation. (March 16, 2009)

Cornell chemists honored by American Chemical Society
Roald Hoffmann, Geoffrey Coates, Garnet Chan and Paul Chirik have received awards from the American Chemical Society for outstanding contributions to the field. (March 16, 2009)

Study: Women are underrepresented in science by choice
Women are underrepresented in math-intensive careers not because they lack good math ability, but because they prefer other careers with more flexibility to raise children, says a new Cornell study. (March 11, 2009)

Funding renewed for national nanotechnology network
A high-profile consortium of nanotechnology research centers, of which Cornell is a founding member, has received a five-year renewal grant from the National Science Foundation. (March 9, 2009)

Small moon may be source of Saturn's G ring
A small, newly discovered moon embedded in a bright arc in Saturn's faint outer ring is likely to be the source of that ring, said Cornell research associate Matthew Hedman. (March 5, 2009)

Cornell initiative transforms 'biotrash' into bioenergy
In a new campus initiative, vegetable oil from deep fryers in campus dining halls, animal bedding, farm waste and other sources of 'biotrash' will be transformed to help fuel the university. (March 5, 2009)

Two student groups spend winter break in Ghana
Giving high school students access to computers and spreading awareness of what causes malaria were the goals of two different student groups who conducted service trips to Ghana over winter break. (March 4, 2009)

Underwater vehicle team charting new waters
In 2008, the CUAUV team began conducting experimental tests with their vehicle Triton in Cayuga Lake. (March 2, 2009)

CU scholars to speak at Sun Grant conference
The event will feature a bevy of speakers and will showcase the latest innovations in bioenergy research, March 10-13 in Washington, D.C. (March 2, 2009)

A new way to model the Internet
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)

BOOM to showcase students' digital work March 4
Bits on Our Minds, the annual expo of student efforts in digital technology, will take place March 4, and the Faculty Innovation in Teaching Program will issue a call for proposals at the end of February. (Feb. 20, 2009)

Cornell dots 'light up' cancer
Brightly glowing nanoparticles known as 'Cornell dots' are a safe, effective way to 'light up' cancerous tumors so surgeons can find and remove them. (Feb. 18, 2009)

C.C. Chu's work goes more than skin deep
Chih-Chang 'C.C.' Chu works with Cornell engineers and medical researchers to develop artificial skin, heart valves and blood vessels. (Feb. 17, 2009)

Using cotton candy to create bloodflow routes
Using a cotton candy machine, a team of physicians and scientists from Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Ithaca campus may have developed a way to create engineered tissue. (Feb. 17, 2009)

Two CU physicists speak at AAAS
Cornell physicists Maury Tigner and Ernest Fontes spoke on the future of accelerator-based science at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (Feb. 17, 2009)

New student team uses biology for building blocks
The Cornell International Genetically Engineered Machines student project team, formed this year, uses biological, not mechanical, components to make machines. (Feb. 17, 2009)

Spirit rolls on after 'benign event'
The Mars rover Spirit is ambling along just fine, after a recently reported minor glitch, and Opportunity continues its long trek. (Feb. 16, 2009)

Improved test can screen fungal pests for biofuel sources
Cornell researchers have improved a method that can now rapidly screen hundreds of fungal species to find ones that can most efficiently produce biofuels from such nonfood sources as cornstalks. (Feb. 11, 2009)

Role of protein in tumors studied in 3D
By observing the behavior of cancer cells grown in both two and three dimensions, a Cornell researcher has shown that a previously underestimated protein could be a key factor in allowing cancer to grow and spread. (Feb. 10, 2009)

'Unzipping' DNA reveals clues to gene expression
By 'unzipping' single DNA molecules, a Cornell research team has gained new insight into how genes are packed and expressed within cells. (Jan. 27, 2009)

CNF receives renewal grant from NSF
The nanotechnology facility is set to receive $2.68 million per year from the NSF for the next five years. (Jan. 20, 2009)

Spitzer telescope detects dust around carbon star
The observation gives scientists a glimpse into the early universe and enlivens a debate about the origins of all cosmic dust. (Jan. 15, 2009)

ECE welcomes new director Tsuhan Chen
Chen, who comes from the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University, started in January as director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. (Jan. 12, 2009)

Cornell, DuPont make nanotubes for flexible electronics
Cornell and DuPont researchers have invented a method of preparing carbon nanotubes for suspension in a semiconducting 'ink,' which can then be printed into thin, flexible electronics. (Jan. 8, 2009)