August 2, 2019: Dr. Stuart Parkin (Director, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle, Germany) presented a Kavli Distinguished Lecture entitled "Beyond Charge Currents: Spin and ion currents for future data storage and computing technologies."

July 2019: KIC member Kin Fai Mak, Associate Professor of Physics, is one of four Cornell faculty members recognized by the White House with a prestigious 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

June, 2019: KIC Member and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Héctor Abruña, has been awarded the Frumkin Memorial Medal from the International Society of Electrochemistry in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field.

June, 2019: KIC members Eun-Ah Kim and Seamus Davis use machine learning to analyze the data generated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to provide valuable information unattainable by any other method.

May, 2019: Incoming KIC Postdoc Kelly Luo has been selected as one of eight 2019 Cornell Presidential Fellows. Luo’s research involves two-dimensional hybrid material systems. She plans to work with Professor Dan Ralph‘s research group when she arrives in September.

April, 2019: KIC Director Paul McEuen, KIC member Itai Cohen, and former KIC Postdoctoral fellow Mark Miskin were featured in the New York Times on April 30, 2019 for their ground-breaking (and KIC-funded) microbot research.

April 2019: Exotic behaviors emerge in atoms when cooled to near absolute zero, a temperature so cold that atoms cease their jittery movement. By bringing the isotope helium-3 to the brink of that threshold and confining it to a tiny space, KIC member Jeevak Parpia discovered that a surprising polka dot pattern spontaneously appeared in the superfluid. 

April 2019: As a genetic material, DNA is responsible for all known life. But DNA is also a polymer. Tapping into the unique nature of the molecule, KIC members Dan Luo and Shogo Hamada have created simple machines constructed of biomaterials with properties of living things.

March 13, 2019: Professor Hong Tang (School of Engineering & Applied Physics, Yale University) presented a Kavli Distinguished Lecture entitled "Integrated χ(2) Photonics."

March 2019: Assistant Professor of Physics and KIC member Brad Ramshaw has been named as a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship. This award supports early-career faculty members' original research and broad-based education related to science, technology, and economic performance.