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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Cornell spinoff Novomer receives national award

9/1/2015 Cornell Chronicle

The three co-founders of Novomer, a startup company based on Cornell research, have received the 2016 Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success from the American Chemical Society (ACS), the society has announced.

PHYSICS

Like paper, graphene folds into nanoscale machines

7/30/2015 Cornell Chronicle

Physicist combines visual arts background with ground-breaking material.

LINGUISTICS

Asian, European languages not so different under the hood

6/12/2015 Cornell Chronicle

Editors and other language mavens have long recognized that sentences containing subject relative clauses – as in, “The man who called the woman is friendly” – are easier to understand than those containing object relative clauses, such as, “The man who the woman called is friendly.” And indeed, this observation is borne out in laboratory experiments with French, English, German and many other European languages.

PIONEERS

Two researchers awarded Department of Defense grants

6/10/2015 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemists William Dichtel and Jiwoong Park have received Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards. The highly competitive program supports research teams working in more than one traditional science or engineering discipline to accelerate breakthroughs in basic research.This year, the DOD awarded 22 MURI grants totaling $149 million over the next five years.