Prof. Gavin Sacks studies the chemistry behind wine. He researches how to make wine smell good after being bottled and how to create a better type of wine grape.
AguaClara, an engineering project team focused on resolving global water problems, designs and builds sustainable water filtration systems for communities in Honduras.
Prof. Doug James, computer science, and Theodore Kim ’01 developed Wavelet Turbulence for Fluid Simulation an award winning software, which allows easier control over the appearance of highly detailed gas simulations. Jeremy Selan ’00 M.S. ’03 won an Academy Award for creating Katana software, which increases the efficiency of editing complex scenes.
Prof. Ashutosh Saxena, computer science, develops visual perception software that reduces the number of times that autonomous flying robots collide with objects in the real world.
The shrub willow, a plant normally planted as ornamental hedges or used in weaving baskets, could now be one of the next mainstream biofuel crops used as a low-impact energy source to replace corn. Since 1998, Prof.
Many of us have gone shopping with a coupon where a genuinely nice cashier, in an attempt to save us money, decided to apply sales tax after the coupon. We typically nod, smile and thank her for her kindness, but in reality, did she save us money? Multiplication’s commutative property says no.
Spenser Reed ’14, a double major in food science and nutritional sciences, joined the search for natural pharmaceuticals this summer at the Cornell Biodiversity Laboratory in the Dominican Republic.
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