Human harvesting of rockweed has put the ecosystem at risk. Vanessa Constant '14, natural resources, studies the growth of rockweed and the optimal harvesting rate.

Moti Fridman, a postdoc in applied and engineering physics, and his colleagues, demonstrated for the first time the invisibility of an activity in time, a phenomenon known as temporal cloaking. 

In an effort to simplify the process of diagnosing diseases caused by such pathogens as tuberculosis, chlamydia, gonorrhea and even HIV, Prof. Dan Luo, biological and environmental engineering, and Prof. Edwin Kan, electrical and computer engineering, have combined inventions from their respective fields to potentially revolutionize the way diseases are detected in the developing world with a new handheld device. Kan and Luo’s work on their joint invention is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the Grand Challenge program to develop “point-of-care diagnostics” for developing countries that do not have the laboratory and research space to test and diagnose diseases.

Prof. Greg Graffin, the frontman and vocalist of acclaimed punk band Bad Religion which has been active for over 30 years and has released 15 studio albums, teaches an evolution course for non-majors at Cornell.