May, 2016: A team led by Kyle Shen, Associate Professor of Physics, and Darrell Schlom, the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry, both members of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscale Science at Cornell, has shown the ability to alter the electrical properties of the unique material through the application of strain – stretching thin films of SRO on top of a single-crystal substrate. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

May, 2016: Actor and science advocate Alan Alda presented a public talk at Cornell’s Bailey Hall on May 16, 2016. His talk, “Getting beyond a blind date with science” emphasized the importance of conveying science and scientific research in plain language in order to be clear to the public. This lecture was sponsored by the Kavli Foundation and was part of an intensive three day faculty workshop on Communicating Science. Read more about the public talk in the Cornell Chronicle.

April, 2016: A state of electronic matter first predicted by theorists in 1964 has finally been discovered by KIC member Seamus Davis‘ research group and may provide key insights into the workings of high-temperature superconductors. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle (full article in Nature).

March, 2016: Science Foundation Ireland presented its prestigious St. Patrick’s Day Science Medal to KIC member Seamus Davis on March 16th, 2016. The presentation was made by Charles Flanagan, Irelands’ minister for foreign affairs and trade, as part of St. Patricks’ Day celebrations in Washington, DC.  Full story in the Cornell Chronicle.

March, 2015: Cornell Neurotech—a joint initiative launched in 2015 by Cornell Engineering and the College of Arts & Sciences—aims to build powerful new tools that can be used to map the individual cells and complex neural networks that change from moment-to-moment within the brain. The group was encouraged by Paul McEuen, co-director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell—which not only provided nominal funding for the monthly meetings, but since 2011 had also been pushing a much larger national research initiative to substantially invest in studies of the brain. Read more in the Cornell Engineering Magazine.

March, 2016: Erik Demaine (MIT) will present the 2016 Kavli Lecture on “Replicators, Transformers, and Robot Swarms: Science Fiction through Geometric Algorithms.”  Tuesday, March 8th, 4:00pm. 120 Physical Sciences Building. Lecture series hosted by the Kavli Institute at Cornell. Download seminar notice with full abstract.

February, 2016: KIC member Sol Gruner is part of a collaboration that has created the first self-assembled, three dimensional gyroidal superconductor, which may lead to entirely novel property profiles of superconductors. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle and the Daily Sun. Read the full article in Science Advances.

January, 2016: KIC member Itai Cohen‘s origami research is prominently highlighted in the latest issue of “What’s happening in the Mathematical Sciences” journal, published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Read more about how the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding is going high-tech on the AMS website.

December, 2015: KIC members David Muller and Lara Estroff have uncovered the process by which mollusks manufacture nacre-commonly known as mother of pearl. This knowledge could lead to new methods of synthesizing a variety of new materials. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle and in Nature Communications.

November, 2015: Neil Lin and Itai Cohen, along with researchers from the University of Edinbugh, have come up with a unique experiment to explain why shear thickening happens. Read more in the Chronicle or the Synopsis or the full article in Physical Review Letters.

July, 2015: Physicists in the McEuen research group use the principles of kirigami to manipulate graphene, laying the groundwork for future nano-machines. Both Co-Directors of KIC, Paul McEuen and David Muller, contributed to the July article in Nature. Read more and see videos of the graphene kirigami in action in the Cornell Chronicle.

July, 2015: Trapping vortices key to high-current superconductors. KIC member Seamus Davis and researchers from Cornell, Brookhaven and Argonne national laboratories have found that irradiation can create nanometer-sized defects that trap swirling eddies in the flow of electrons, keeping them out of the way so more current can flow. They reported their discovery in the May 22 issue of the journal Science Advances. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

June, 2015: Uyen Nguyen’s origami art is part of a VOGEL collection that features creased textiles. For info on the collection see https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/send-vogel-to-vancouver-fashion-week–3#/story. Nguyen works in KIC member Itai Cohen‘s research group studying the mechanical properties of Origami and designing materials with tailored mechanical properties. Read more in the  Aug. 4th Cornell Chronicle article.

June, 2015: Cornell chemist and KIC member Jiwoong Park has received a Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award. The highly competitive program supports research teams working in more than one traditional science or engineering discipline to accelerate breakthroughs in basic research. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

April, 2015: Cornell Chemistry Professor and KIC member Jiwoong Park has demonstrated a way to create a new kind of semiconductor thin film that retains its electrical properties even when it is just atoms thick. Read more about the Park group growth technique for molybdenum disulfide in the Cornell Chronicle.