Professors address climate change from multiple disciplines
The panel, during Reunion 2025, was called "Beyond the Apocalypse: New Narratives and Innovations for Climate Action."
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The Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at Cornell is recognized as one of the oldest and most esteemed Chemistry Departments in the nation. Our faculty have won four Nobel Prizes and two MacArthur Genius Awards over the history of the Department. Chemistry & Chemical Biology founded the Journal of Physical Chemistry (J. Phys. Chem.) and has consistently been ranked a Top 10 Graduate Program by U.S. News & World Report.
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Graduate Student Invited to Prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings bring together Nobel Prize recipients and approx. 600 exceptional young scientists from around the world for a week of “interdisciplinary exchange” aimed at fostering scientific collaboration across generations and national boundaries.
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Happy together: Peroxide binds incompatible polymers for recycling
“The dream is, if you can make a really rigid polymer that’s also really tough, then you can make packaging that uses less material, yet has the same sort of properties."
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Moving pictures: Researchers use movies to diagnose EV battery failure
The technique enables them to watch chemistry in action and collect real-time movies showing what happens to energy materials during temperature changes.
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Seventeen Receive Awards Recognizing Inclusive Excellence
Awardees were recognized for the significant impacts they have made to advance access, engagement and belonging through their service and leadership.
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Physicist Brad Ramshaw awarded $2M as Brown Investigator
“This grant will allow us to pursue some high-risk, novel ideas for how to measure material properties like elasticity and high-frequency conductivity that have previously been inaccessible in 2D materials.”
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Abruña receives 2025 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences
The biennial prize, announced May 15, “recognizes an individual for exceptional and original research in a selected area of chemistry that has advanced the field in a major way.”
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Carbon dioxide key to making a precise polymer safely
Cornell chemists have developed a user-friendly, scalable process for methacrylate that’s precisely controlled and mediated by carbon dioxide.
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