Eight doctoral candidates and two postdocs were inducted into the Cornell Chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes scholarly achievement and promotes diversity in doctoral education. Read more
Congratulations to George Padilla for being awarded a 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship provides students with a three-year annual stipend, allowance for tuition and fees and professional development opportunities. Past fellows include numerous Nobel Prize winners, a former U.S. Secretary of Energy and the founder of Google. “The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship allows me the opportunity to freely explore my research interests as I look toward pursuing a Ph.D.,” said Padilla. “I am extremely grateful to have been awarded this fellowship, and greatly... Read more
The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility has partnered with two academic institutions to offer a free Microelectronics and Nanomanufacturing Certificate Program to veterans and their dependents. Read more
For the first time in Cornell Engineering’s history, every school and department currently has, or will soon have, a woman faculty member on the college’s executive leadership team. The milestone comes as the college celebrates the 140th anniversary of its first woman engineer. Read more
Researchers led by Cornell have discovered an unusual phenomenon in a metal-insulating material, providing valuable insights for the design of materials with new properties by way of faster switching between states of matter. Read more
A novel way to analyze complex network contagion and a new material to improve quantum computers, among other devices, is what two Cornell Engineering faculty members will be working toward, respectively, as recipients of 2024 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program grants. Read more
Researchers developed a more controlled way of making nickelates, a material that could potentially help pinpoint the key qualities that enable high-temperature superconductivity. Read more
A two-week program that introduces high school seniors to nanofabrication is one of many efforts at the Cornell NanoScale Facility to prepare a workforce - as the microchip industry settles in upstate New York. Read more
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Professor Hwang received the 2023 EDS Lester F. Eastman Award for outstanding achievement in high-performance semiconductor devices. The award is especially significant to Hwang, as the late Prof. Eastman was his life-long friend, mentor, and collaborator. An article written by Hwang is featured on page 48 of the latest issue of EDS January 2024 Newsletter, where he discusses his connection to Prof. Eastman and the impact of his research. Read more
A consortium organized by Cornell and four other New York-based leaders in semiconductor research and development has been awarded $40 million by the U.S. Department of Defense to advance microelectronics innovation and manufacturing. Read more
