Physicist Ernest Rutherford once explained the surprise results of his famed gold foil experiment to be “as if you fired a 15-inch naval shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.”
Cornell scientists, past and present, are anything but ordinary. The university prides itself in hiring some of the most intelligent people in the world, but its long list of innovative, brilliant, and award-winning minds is bound to have a few misunderstood characters.
Last week, Ph.D. candidate Karen Heymann, crop and soil sciences, presented her research on black carbon, one of the "dirtiest" specimen on Earth. Her research utilized the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source to detect and characterize this substance, which plays a role in soil and climate change.
The famous theorists of philosophy spent centuries examining the realities and constraints of human free will. But as scientific research continues to explore the subject through evolution and genetics, new knowledge challenges these traditional views of human free will.
Members of the chemical and biomolecular engineering department welcomed girls from rural high school to a series of events of Saturday. The events exposed the girls to the world of college science, and provided hands-on experience in chemistry labs.
This Peer Review examines three project teams from the engineering program, each striving to construct an autonomous, independent robot. By land, by air, and by sea, the robots of this Peer Review display the deligent efforts of dedicated, undergraduate teams.
Sometimes, even chemical engineers have reason to party.
On February 4th, 2010, the chemical engineers of Cornell gathered to celebrate Prof. Matthew DeLisa, chemical and biomolecular engineering. He received tenure in May 2009, but decided to postpone the celebration until Olin Hall's renovation was complete. Although postponed, the party went on.
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