January, 2015: KIC member J.C. Seamus Davis teams up with Eun-Ah Kim to isolate a ‘fingerprint’ that identifies specific fluctuations in electrons that force them into pairs, causing their host material to make way for free-flowing, resistance-free electron pairs.  Their findings were published in Nature Physics.

December, 2014: John Heron, a postdoc in KIC members Dan Ralph and Darrell Schlom's research groups, has made a breakthrough in room-temperature magnetoelectric memory device. Full article in Nature.

September, 2014: The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has selected nineteen Moore Experimental Investigators in Quantum Materials, including KIC member J.C. Seamus Davis. Through grants to 11 universities around the United States, this five-year, $34.2M investigator program will allow outstanding physicists to pursue ambitious, high-risk research, including the development of new experimental techniques.  

October, 2014: Curious Stardust, the new Kavli blog, is comprised of a team of scientists from 11 Kavli Institutes reflecting on work in and around astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience.

Oct., 2014: The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Eric Betzig, AEP ’88, William E. Moerner, Physics ’82, and Stefan W. Hell “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.” Both Betzig and Moerner received their M.S. and Ph.D from Cornell University. Moerner was a student of Professor Albert Sievers in the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Phyiscs (LASSP). 

October, 2014: KIC member Chris Xu joined other academics and industry leaders at the White House for a conference celebrating progress on the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative, a sweeping federal effort to understand everything about the human brain.

KIC member Michal Lipson demonstrates that light can be manipulated with optics the way electrons are controlled by a magnetic field.  These findings were published in a recent issue of Nature Photonics.

August, 2014: KIC member Itai Cohen's research into origami mechanics and reprogammable materials has led to articles this week in Science and the New York Times.

August ,2014: KIC members Darrell Schlom, David Muller, Kyle Shen and Lena Kourkoutis use high-energy electron diffraction, x-ray spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and quantum mechanical calculations to confirm that an extra layer of strontium oxide is needed in order to grow a perfect Ruddlesden-Popper film.  Their discovery was published in Nature Communications, Aug. 4.

KIC member Dan Ralph has partnered with Penn State researcher Nitin Samarth to discover a novel approach to computer memory they call a "topological insulator." Using the spin orientation of electrons their approach could lead to memory devices that are 10 times more efficient than any other known methods. This discovery was described in the July 24 issue of Nature.