New course sets sail on understanding physics–by boat
Students venture out onto Cayuga Lake for hands-on learning about wind speed, velocity, buoyancy, and more
Revealing the superconducting limit of ‘magic’ material
Cornell researchers have identified the highest achievable superconducting temperature of graphene – 60 Kelvin. The finding is mathematically exact and is spurring new insights into the factors that fundamentally control superconductivity.
Physicist Yuval Grossman elected to American Physical Society
Yuval Grossman, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society for seminal contributions in “flavor” physics.
Two-day ‘LepageFest’ honors physicist and former dean of A&S
The conference focused on the current status and future of heavy quark physics while highlighting the science Lepage has done throughout his career.
Student spotlight: Elijah Sheridan
Elijah Sheridan, a doctoral student in physics from Lansing, Michigan, studies string theory under the guidance of Liam McAllister at Cornell.
John Hopfield, Ph.D. ’58, wins Nobel Prize in physics
Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto were honored for their work in training artificial neural networks.
Leading particle physicist headlines fall 2024 Bethe Lectures
Beate Heinemann, professor at Universität Hamburg and director for particle physics at DESY in Germany, will share the stories of two outstanding women scientists in a public lecture.
Indie drama depicts Cornellian couple's role in web history
Set in the 1980s, The Man Who Saved the Internet with a Sunflower chronicles two ’69 classmates in Silicon Valley
Active Learning Initiative welcomes new director, says goodbye to longtime leader
In June 2024, longtime Active Learning Initiative director Peter Lepage handed the initiative's reins to incoming director, Timothy Riley, professor of mathematics.
Microscale kirigami robot folds into 3D shapes and crawls
Researchers created a robot less than 1 millimeter in size that is printed as a 2D hexagonal “metasheet” but, with a jolt of electricity, morphs into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawls.
New Faculty: Jennet Dickinson
Jennet Dickinson, Physics
From portfolios to pizza, fall A&S career events explore diverse fields
"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."
NSF-funded postdocs to research education across disciplines
Engaging with a whole set of mentors will allow the CIDER postdocs to approach questions about student learning and experiences across disciplinary boundaries and use techniques from multiple fields.
Sound drives ‘quantum jumps’ between electron orbits
Cornell researchers have demonstrated that acoustic sound waves can be used to control the motion of an electron as it orbits a lattice defect in a diamond, a technique that can potentially improve the sensitivity of quantum sensors and be used in other quantum devices.
New A&S dean relishes ‘life in a university’
Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
Faculty, students pair up for summer Nexus Scholar research projects
More students can afford to stay on campus to work in faculty labs during the summer thanks to generous alumni.
DOE funds new Cornell accelerator science trainee program
The program’s goal is to “produce a diverse body of broadly educated fellows” in areas targeted by DOE’s Office of Science, including RF superconducting structures, high brightness electron sources for linear accelerators, physics of large accelerators and system engineering, and operation of large-scale accelerator systems.
A&S honors 10 faculty with endowed professorships
With these new appointments, the number of A&S faculty appointed to endowed professorships since fall 2018 has reached 76.
Simons Observatory begins measurements to probe Big Bang inflation
The new Simons Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert may soon answer the great scientific question of what happened in the tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
Peter Loewen named dean of Arts and Sciences
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he is the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen begins his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
Three doctoral students selected for Department of Energy program
Virginia McGhee, doctoral candidate in chemistry and chemical biology; and Liana Shpani, doctoral candidate in physics, are two of three Cornell doctoral students selected for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (DOE SCGSR) Program’s 2023 Solicitation 2 Cycle.
'I learned to build expertise in new sub-fields from scratch'
Devisree Tallapaneni is a physics, statistical science and College Scholar major.
'I made a major contribution to my research group’s software'
Brandon Li is a physics & mathematics major.
'Be persistent, be passionate, and be true'
Ariel Baksh is a Physics major.
'It was incredibly rewarding to tackle such difficult problems'
Andrew DiFabbio is a physics & mathematics major.
Projects funded by 2024 New Frontier Grants look toward the future
The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) has awarded five New Frontier Grants to cutting edge projects in science, social science and the humanities led by A&S faculty.
Ultrasound experiment identifies new superconductor
With pulses of sound through tiny speakers, Cornell physics researchers have clarified the basic nature of the newly discovered superconductor uranium ditelluride.
Student spotlight: Meagan Sundstrom
Meagan Sundstrom, doctoral candidate in physics from Walpole, Massachusetts, studies the role of gender in physics education.
Ten inducted into Bouchet Honor Society
Eight Cornell doctoral candidates, including five connected to A&S, and two postdocs have been inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
Hubble Fellow chooses Cornell for postdoc
Physicist Keefe Mitman will work with Nils Deppe, assistant professor of physics, on the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration on improving gravitational wave models to aid with the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra Collaboration’s detection and characterization of compact binary encounters.
Totality awesome: 400 students travel north for rare eclipse
The April 8 solar eclipse was “definitely life-changing,” said Emma Linscomb ’27, a member of Cornell’s Society of Physics Students.
Cornell Cinema offers tasty, mind-stretching Science on Screen showings
Science on Screen® supports creative pairings of current, classic, cult, and documentary films with introductions by figures from the world of science, technology and medicine.
Summer Experience Grant applications now open
The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
Physics Ph.D. candidate wins 2024 Three Minute Thesis competition
Meagan Sundstrom won Cornell’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. 3MT challenges graduate students to present their thesis research compellingly to general audiences in just three minutes.
Eight students advance to 3MT finals
Three A&S-affiliated graduate students are among the competitors advancing to the final round of the 2024 Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT), having competed in a pool of 22 students in the preliminary round.
Replica theory shows deep neural networks think alike
A collaboration between researchers from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania found that most successful deep neural networks follow a similar trajectory in the same “low-dimensional” space.
Choosing connection: Physics professor teaches Arab youth in Israel
Professor Yuval Grossman has been traveling to Israel to lead math and physics activities with young people in Arab villages since 2019. His most recent trip was in January.
Poised for Oscar gold, Oppenheimer boasts a Big Red distinction
Thanks in part to its physics-centric plot, the hit movie may depict more Cornellians than any other feature film in history.
Spring 2024 Bethe Lecture bridges physics and computer science
During three events March 13-15, Lenka Zdeborová will explore how principles from statistical physics provide insights into challenging computational problems.
Four early-career faculty win 2024 Sloan Research awards
Assistant professors Anna Y.Q. Ho, Chao-Ming Jian, Rene Kizilcec and Karan Mehta are among 126 early-career researchers who have won 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Physicists detect elusive ‘Bragg glass’ phase with machine learning tool
The discovery settles a long-standing question of whether this almost–but not quite–ordered state of Bragg glass can exist in real materials.
'Flawed' material resolves superconductor conundrum
Researchers developed a more controlled way of making nickelates, a material that could potentially help pinpoint the key qualities that enable high-temperature superconductivity.
Researchers develop new model to predict surface atom scattering
Helium beams are potentially very useful for understanding the surface characteristics of materials on the molecular level.
Cornell takes role in advancing software at CERN
Cornell and other U.S. universities have been awarded $25 million from the National Science Foundation for research at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.
Nearly 70 students recognized at pinning ceremony
Dean’s Scholars are selected for their demonstrated commitment to academic excellence and advancing aspects of diversity, access, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the academy and other communities.
Klarman Fellow: Studying electron interactions with ultrafast lasers and more
New experimental tools developed by Hongyuan Li give insight into an exponentially complicated world.
DOE funds new research to advance computer chip technology
Cornell researchers are part of a project to enable sustainable hardware for AI and quantum computing, one of 11 projects selected by DOE to receive a total of $73 million.
Parrots, songbirds have evolved distinct brain mechanisms, Klarman Fellow finds
The study provides a clue into how parrot – and human – brains allow continuous, flexible vocal learning.
Louis Hand, pioneer of high-energy physics, dies at 90
Colleagues remember Hand as a scientist devoted to discovery, both in his field of expertise and beyond.
Bethe Lecture: Testing space propulsion on Earth
On Nov. 15, physicist and engineer John Foster will discuss the challenge of testing high power electric propulsion on the ground.