7:30pm Monday, May 16, 2016: 2016 Science Communication Workshop and public talk by Alan Alda "Getting Beyond a Blind Date with Science" Presented by Alan Alda

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.

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

Tuesday, March 8th, 4:00pm. Erik Demaine (MIT) will present the 2016 Kavli Lecture on "Replicators, Transformers, and Robot Swarms: Science Fiction through Geometric Algorithms." Lecture series hosted by the Kavli Institute at Cornell.

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, 2017: KIC Member and Physics Professor Sol Gruner works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of engineers and physicists to create the first self-assembled superconductor structure.

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.

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 Nature Communications.

November 30, 2015: Dr. Leo Kouwenhoven (Delft) presented a Kavli Distinguished Lecture entitled "Majorana Fermions: From Particle Physics on a Chip to Topological Quantum Computing."

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 the Synopsis, or the full article in Physical Review Letters.