Lauren Hodge, a 14-year-old high school junior from Pennsylvania, conducted an experiment with Cornell’s Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering's Soil and Water Lab earlier in the month.
Prof. Adam Seth Levine '03, government, won the American Political Science Association award for his doctoral research on people's participation in politics.
In front of a packed Statler Auditorum Thursday, one of the world’s most renowned biologists, Dr. J. Craig Venter, discussed his research in creating life from machines in the field of synthetic genomics.
A new round of litigation about whether a Cornell researcher defrauded the federal government kicked off last month, when Cornell submitted its appeals brief.
While disagreement in Congress inches Washington, D.C., closer to a possible government shutdown, the state of future federal funding for research at Cornell looks “tough but not disastrous,” said Robert Buhrman, senior vice provost for research.
Underneath the ground in Switzerland and France there lies the world’s largest machine, designed to accelerate matter to nearly the speed of light in order to understand the basic rules of the universe. 15 miles around the Large Hadron Collider, is the most expensive experiment in history combining the resources of over 28 nation states. Hongwan Liu ’11 has been analyzing information directly from the LHC.