With a bit of leverage, Cornell researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers. That's enough to completely switch the optical properties of the structure from opaque to transparent, they reported. Read more
Professor Clifford Pollock receives the Marsha D. McCormick Award for excellence in advising first year students. Read more
ECE faculty members Dave Delchamps, Aaron Wagner, and Steve Wicker receive prestigious Engineering College Teaching Awards. Read more
José Martínez and Kevin Tang have each received a 2009 IBM Faculty Award. Read more
Paul Kintner has been selected to become a Jefferson Science Fellow with the US Department of State in Washington, DC. Paul will take a sabbatical leave from Cornell during the academic year 2009-2010. Read more
The award (1 million per year for 5 years) will be shared approximately equally between Cornell and Columbia (Columbia is the lead). The principal investigator is Rick Osgood at Columbia and Professor Michael Spencer will lead the Cornell efforts. Read more
Prof. Zygmunt J. Haas was invited to deliver a series of lectures in the Scandinavian countries as part of the IEEE ComSoc Distinguish Lecturers Tour (DLT) program. Read more
Rajit Manohar, Associate Professor receives the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2009. Read more
Somewhat the way Harry Potter can cover himself with a cloak and become invisible, Cornell researchers have developed a device that can make it seem that a bump in a carpet -- or, indeed, any flat surface -- isn't there. Read more
