On November 21, 2013, science lost a great friend in Fred Kavli, an advocate, an innovator, a visionary and a champion. He was 86 years old.  Click here for the Kavli Foundation Press Release and Obituary.

November, 2013: President Barack Obama recently unveiled the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative: an ambitious research program that aims to map the functions of the brain with the ultimate goal to treat neurological and psychiatric diseases. Several Cornell professors played key roles in directing recommendations for this initiative, including Paul McEuen, director of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscale Science.

Oct. 2013: KIC member Darrell Schlom and Co-Director David Muller have discovered the world’s best material for tunable capacitors.  The Cornell-designed and -created new type of tunable dielectric could greatly improve the performance of microwave circuit capacitors found in every cell phone and open up new possibilities for wireless communication at much higher frequencies.

Oct. 2013: KIC Co-Director David Muller uses an electron microscope to bend, deform and melt atomically thin glass, showing the ‘dance’ of rearranging atoms in silica glass. This newest work is published Oct. 11 in the journal Science.

October 3, 2013: The Kavli Foundation has endowed a new institute at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to explore the basic science of how to capture and channel energy on the molecular or nanoscale, with the potential for discovering new ways of generating energy for human use.

September, 2013: At just a molecule thick, it's a new record: The world's thinnest sheet of glass is recorded for posterity in the Guinness Book of World Records. The "pane" of glass was identified in the lab of David Muller, Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics and Co-Director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science.

July, 2013: KIC members Paul McEuen, David Muller, and Jiwoong Park have imaged solitons in bilayer graphene with atomic resolution. These solitons are predicted to act as ‘electrical highways’ allowing electrons to shoot from one end of the graphene sheet to the other.  Their work was published online in the June 24 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

June, 2013: In the July/August 2013 issue of Discover Magazine, Prof. Paul McEuen, Director of LASSP and the Kavli Institute at Cornell, gives a Q&A on advances in nanotechnology. 

May 21 - 24, 2013: Thanks to all who participated in the KIC Science Communications Workshop! TO DO: handle the source/target content -- maybe recreate the photo gallery and attach to a basic page and link this "event" to that page...? (and empty the body field on this "event")

May, 2013: Alan Alda and staff from the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University visited campus May 21-24 to offer science communication training to two workshop tracks for about 50 Cornell faculty members. This workshop was hosted by the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science. Funding was also provided by the Kavli Foundation, the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR), and the Energy Materials Center at Cornell (emc2).