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![David A. Duffield ’62, MBA ’64 is making the largest gift in Cornell history.]()
Largest gift in university history names Cornell David A. Duffield College of Engineering
More than $520 million in contributions from David A. Duffield ’62, MBA ’64 – including a new pledge of $371.5 million and a 2025 commitment of $100 million, combined with previous gifts – will establish the Cornell David A. Duffield College of Engineering.
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New program centers mentorship, culture in research groups
Cornell Engineering faculty and students gathered Dec. 18 in Upson Hall to celebrate the first participants to complete Radical Humanity in Research, a new program designed to strengthen the human foundations of high-impact research.
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Electrons stay put in layers of mismatched ‘quantum Legos’
Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go – or don’t go – in certain layered materials.
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Light causes atomic layers to do the twist
Using a Cornell-built instrument and Cornell-built high-speed detector, a team of researchers captured atomically thin materials responding to light with a dynamic twisting motion.
Upcoming Events
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LPS Colloquium: Hantao Ji (PPPL)
Magnetic reconnection: past, present, and future Magnetic reconnection is considered as one of most fundamental plasma processes across the Universe responsible for explosive release of magnetic energ…
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Engineering Undergraduate Research Poster Session
The Office of Inclusive Excellence and the Engineering Communications Program invite the Cornell Duffield Engineering community to celebrate undergraduate research at the annual Duffield Engineering U…
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LPS Colloquium: Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton)
Multiscale plasma physics of particle acceleration in collisionless shocks Shocks in low density plasmas (so-called “collisionless shocks”) are ubiquitous throughout the Universe and are t…
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