Connecting with Cornell (23.1) — News from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research

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Research in Progress

We present some of Cornell’s most dynamic and extraordinary faculty on the theme, ways of seeing.

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Through the Lens of an Undergraduate Writer

“My intent while writing the story had been to get into the mind of a middle-aged korean man and spend time there. That was all,” explained Woo, the american-born korean writer. “I wanted readers to understand more, but not jump to a conclusion.”

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Agents for Seeing

Contrast agents, which allow us to see inside living tissue, are not only crucial to imaging techniques, but also to extending the life of laboratory animals.

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Seeing DNA and Beyond

The BRC Imaging Facility provides many ways of seeing, from real-time movies of the heart beating in a living mouse, to images of paperthin structures lying underneath the skin of a tomato, to detailed three-dimensional digital reconstructions of the exoskeleton of trilobites embedded in fossils that are hundreds of millions of years old.

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Laser Focused

“To get from a solid-state laser to the same performance in fiber, there are some major scientific challenges,” Wise remarked, “And that’s what attracts us. It takes new concepts in pulse formation to make a stable pulse of very high energy that will propagate in fiber.”

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Through the Lens of Opinions

In the past year, Appinions expanded its services into the social networking space. It released its influencer services to find and track those individuals who are most likely to influence a trend, idea, product, or brand.

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Visualizing the Invisible

Cornell research is not only at the cutting edge that now enables us see the once invisible, but also in consistently sharpening the clarity of our vision of both the physical universe and the richness of human interactions.

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