Science

Prof. Gavin Sacks Studies Grapes and Improves Wines

Kathleen Bitter  —  Feb 13, 2013

Prof. Gavin Sacks studies the chemistry behind wine. He researches how to make wine smell good after being bottled and how to create a better type of wine grape.

AguaClara Purifies Water In Honduras

Camille Wang  —  Feb 13, 2013

AguaClara, an engineering project team focused on resolving global water problems, designs and builds sustainable water filtration systems for communities in Honduras.

Prof. Claire Cardie Investigates Online Speech Patterns

Nicolas Ramos  —  Feb 6, 2013

Prof. Claire Cardie studies natural language processing and assess online language to help find fake hotel reviews.

Prof. Joel Brock Uses Cornell’s Synchrotron to Study Metal Oxides

Moyouri bhattac...  —  Feb 6, 2013

Prof. Joel Brock, applied engineering and physics, uses Cornell's synchrotron to study solid state materials.

Titan: Saturn’s Frigid Moon

Sarah Cohen  —  Feb 6, 2013

Scientists research Saturn's largest moon Titan. There, they find the possibility of floating hydrocarbon ice and the beginnings of life.

C.U. Computer Scientists Win Oscars

Camille Wang  —  Jan 30, 2013

Prof. Doug James, computer science, and Theodore Kim ’01 developed Wavelet Turbulence for Fluid Simulation an award winning software, which allows easier control over the appearance of highly detailed gas simulations. Jeremy Selan ’00 M.S. ’03 won an Academy Award for creating Katana software, which increases the efficiency of editing complex scenes.

Neuron-Based Software Allows Prof. Saxena’s AirRobot to Autonomously Avoid Objects

Jacqueline Carozza  —  Jan 30, 2013

 Prof. Ashutosh Saxena, computer science, develops visual perception software that reduces the number of times that autonomous flying robots collide with objects in the real world.

Shrub Willow: Building a Better Biofuel

Yvonne Huang  —  Jan 23, 2013

The shrub willow, a plant normally planted as ornamental hedges or used in  weaving baskets, could now be one of the next mainstream biofuel crops used as a low-impact energy source to replace corn. Since 1998, Prof.

The Scientist: Prof. Steven Strogatz Studies Synchronization

Amit Blumfield  —  Jan 23, 2013

Many of us have gone shopping with a coupon where a genuinely nice cashier, in an attempt to save us money, decided to apply sales tax after the coupon. We typically nod, smile and thank her for her kindness, but in reality, did she save us money? Multiplication’s commutative property says no.

Peer Review: Reed ’14 Investigates Indigenous Remedies For Type 1 Diabetes

Jacqueline Carozza  —  Jan 23, 2013

Spenser Reed ’14, a double major in food science and nutritional sciences,  joined the search for natural pharmaceuticals this summer at the Cornell Biodiversity Laboratory in the Dominican Republic.

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