News: ECE

In the three years that the Cornell Maker Club has existed, it has amassed a collection of useful tools and equipment, a lot of participants, and soon, a new home. Read more

Research from Xing/Jena lab highlighted in Semiconductor Today. Read more

MNT: Cornell biomedical engineers have discovered natural triggers that could reduce the chance of life-threatening, congenital heart defects among newborn infants. Read more

Cornell biomedical engineers have found natural triggers that can override developmental, biological miscues – research that could reduce the chance of congenital heart defects. Read more

Competing in Salt Lake City, UT at the Annual Student Conference, over 30 student teams from around the world will be racing their chemically powered vehicles Read more

Yahoo! News: Marijuana is a natural candidate for experimentation — and not just the kind that leaves New York Times columnists in hallucinatory states for eight hours. Because it’s often grown indoors, and growing it legally is just becoming legal in a few states around the country, the plant is almost begging to be messed with. And, if those experiments go well, they could affect more than just Mary-Jane. Read more

Nearly half of the more than 900 January degree candidates took part in the Dec. 19 recognition ceremony, held before thousands of family and friends in Barton Hall. Read more

ScienceDaily: Graduate student Haining Wang came up with an inventive way of measuring the near-instantaneous electrical current generated using a light detector that he and a team of Cornell engineers made using an atomically thin material. Read more

A team of Cornell researchers has used cyclodextrin, the same material found in the air freshener Febreze, to develop a technique that could revolutionize the water-purification industry. Read more

A Cornell graduate student employed two-pulse photovoltaic correlation to measure the speed of his team's ultrafast photodetector in research published in Nature Communications, Nov. 17. Read more