11 of Cornell’s young faculty talk with the editor about their research, exploring a broad range of topics and explaining how they got hooked on their fields.
Cornell provides many opportunities for undergraduate students to experience a variety of fields and perspectives, truly fulfilling Ezra Cornell’s famous goal of “any person … any study.”
Kenneth Ferguson ’11 and Nitin Malik ’11 are two undergraduate researchers in the Department of Applied and Engineering Physics doing interesting work in the laboratories on campus.
Over the past decade, the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) has brought Cornell scientists and K-12 teachers together to improve science education.
SaltCheck Inc., an Allied Minds company that is based on Cornell research, is working to develop and commercialize an on-the-spot test to monitor salt excretion that closely mirrors salt intake for hypertension patients.
When nearly 1,000 U.S. Olympic athletes and coaches settled in for the long flight to Beijing to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, each of them was provided with a supply of a new type of “functional food” called AppleBoost™ energy snack tubes.
When we talk about Cornell, we can describe the institution in many ways. Cornell has a beautiful campus; it is diverse; it is Ivy League; it is an American university with a global scope; it is cutting-edge.
“I feel that I am part of something bigger than the here and now, and bigger than the individual efforts of each person, at Cornell. The energy of team effort characterizes the university. Robert Kleinberg, Computer Science”