Robert F. Smith ’85, founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, will be honored with Cornell Engineering’s 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award. It will be presented at a ceremony April 24 in Statler Hall Auditorium.
The principal investigator from Antartica's IceCube Neutrino Observatory will present the 2016 Hans Bethe Lecturer in Physics Wednesday, March 23, 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
The next generation of Earth- and space-based telescopes will be able to hunt distant solar systems for evidence of life on Earth-like exoplanets, thanks to a new spectral field guide.
Karl Termini designs, creates and repairs unique scientific glassware, saving departments time and money and ensuring researchers get exactly the equipment they need.
On April 24 particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed will examine the significance of performing basic research in his latest public talk as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
From robots playing video games to the next Uber competitor, cutting-edge technologies created by more than 200 students will be on display at BOOM 2019 on April 24, from 4-6 p.m. in the Duffield Hall atrium.
New research shows that in U.S. higher education, women are more likely than men to enter and complete college, but they are less likely to earn degrees in STEM fields.
Arthur DeGaetano, director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University, and climatologists Jessica Spaccio and Samantha Borisoff are available for interviews about Hurricane Florence and can discuss landfall probabilities, past similar storms, and anticipated impacts.
A Cornell-led collaboration is flipping the switch on traditional synthetic chemistry by using electricity to drive a new chemical reaction that previously stumped chemists.
James Cordes, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, and Shami Chatterjee, a researcher at Cornell’s department of astronomy are members of the EHT collaboration pulsar working group, which focuses on finding pulsars around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. They are available for interviews about today’s breakthrough.
