Researchers have developed a new method of generating terahertz signals on an inexpensive silicon chip for medical imaging, security scanning and wireless data transfer.
Sandip Tiwari, the Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering and director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), has been named the recipient of the 2007 Cledo Brunetti Award from the IEEE.
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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)
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will preside over the university's 129th Commencement on Sunday, May 25, at 11 a.m. on Schoellkopf Field. Rawlings will confer degrees on almost 6,000 eligible graduates, capping two days of celebratory activities that include a Senior Convocation with an address by television personality Bertice Berry on Saturday, May 24, at noon in Barton Hall.
Despite great obstacles, Ken Kunken '72, who was paralyzed from the shoulders down after severing his spinal cord in a sprint football accident, has created a life of meaning and purpose. (Oct. 9, 2009)
Cornell Library has a wealth of books, online resources and scholarly materials, but also offers hidden treasures ranging from Sinatra records to poisonous plants. (Feb. 1, 2007)
"Living Nightmares: Facing the Growing Threat of Biological Terrorism" will be the subject of a talk to be given on the Cornell campus May 3 by Steven M. Block, professor of biological sciences and of applied physics at Stanford University.
Experts at Cornell University are available to discuss the coronavirus in terms of its many impacts on economic productivity, inequalities as well as specific disruptions to various industries.
Who picks and packages the fruits and vegetables in supermarkets? To learn more about the faces and lives behind the produce we eat, teachers and youth leaders can obtain free teacher resources and lesson plans developed by Cornell University on migrant farmworkers in the northeastern United States.
An alumnus is donating news transcripts from the 1969 Willard Straight Hall takeover as part of an archive of 50 years of records and transcripts WVBR-FM is donating to Cornell Library on Oct. 4. (Sept. 30, 2009)
