Cornell professors  Harry Greene, Paul Sawyer, Robert Smith and Robert Thorne have been chosen for the 2011 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships, the Cornell Board of  Trustees announced at the Jan. 21-22 meeting in New York City.  more

From the mixing of milk in coffee to the formation of raindrops in clouds, the physics of turbulent flow is everywhere. Researchers at Cornell have discovered that seemingly random turbulent flows, which are the flow of a fluid in which velocity varies rapidly and irregularly, actually have an astonishing structure.

The work, published online June 5 in the journal Nature Physics, was led by Eberhard Bodenschatz, Cornell adjunct professor of physics and of mechanical and aerospace engineering. The work was in collaboration with researchers Haitao Xu of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Germany and Alain Pumir of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France. more

Cornell professors Jon Kleinberg and Paul McEuen, and Weill Cornell professor Carl Nathan are among 72 new members of the National Academy of Sciences.

McEuen, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics and director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science and the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP), studies the electrical and mechanical properties of carbon nanomaterials.

McEuen’s group has conducted seminal studies of carbon nanotubes, quantum dots and single molecules. Recently he discovered that single photons can create multiple electron-hole pairs in carbon-nanotube photodiodes, suggesting a new strategy for enhancing efficiency in photovoltaic devices. more

N. David Mermin received this prize for his fundamental contributions on the solid state physics, quantum field theory and statistical mechanics, especially Mermin-Wagner theorem and its remarkable applications. And for his promoting the scientific international interdisciplinary collaborations. To read more about Majorana Prize awardees seehttp://www.majoranaprize.com/

University faculty elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. more