Tom Fleischman

Ithaca

News Editor, Cornell University at Freelance

Senior writer/editor at the Cornell Chronicle (recovering sportswriter). Liverpool F.C., Yankees, Giants, Rangers, Knicks, anything our nieces/nephews play.

Articles

Can Trash Textiles Replace Toxic Coatings?

2 weeks ago | pcimag.com | Tom Fleischman

Credit: joruba / iStock via Getty Images Plus A new technique developed by researchers at Cornell University could enable the creation of waterproof coatings for clothing from discarded textiles — a safer and more sustainable alternative to conventional coatings, which are typically made with harsh chemicals and carcinogens. The method, developed by a team led by Juan Hinestroza, the Rebecca Q.
Five early-career professors win NSF development awards

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | Tom Fleischman

Researchers studying the origins of novel traits in organisms, the exotic properties of anyons and their implications for quantum computing, and the fundamental understanding of extreme weather are among the five Cornell assistant professors who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.
Altier, Parrish elected to microbiology academy

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | Tom Fleischman

Dr. Craig Altier and Colin Parrish, Ph.D. ’84, both of the College of Veterinary Medicine, have been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology. Altier and Parrish are among 65 members of the class of 2025, which brings the total number of academy fellows to more than 2,600.
Two early-career faculty win 2025 Sloan Research awards

2 months ago | news.cornell.edu | Tom Fleischman

Assistant professors Allison Koenecke and Wen Sun are among 126 early-career researchers across North America who have won 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Koenecke is in the Department of Information Science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science; Sun is in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell Bowers CIS; this fall, he will move to Cornell Tech.
Six Cornell faculty win White House early career awards

Jan 21, 2025 | news.cornell.edu | Tom Fleischman

The White House has recognized six Cornell faculty members – Andrew Hein, Tashara M. Leak and Zhiting Tian from the Ithaca campus, and Steven Josefowicz, Ekta Khurana and Kristen Pleil from Weill Cornell Medicine – with 2025 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The awards were announced Jan. 14.
New book explores the act of defiance

Jan 14, 2025 | news.cornell.edu | Tom Fleischman

According to the Dictionary of Sanskrit Names, “Sunita” represents “she who has good conduct or behavior.”Dr. Sunita Sah tried to live her life by that definition while growing up in an immigrant family in 1980s northern England. To her, that meant doing as she was told – especially by her parents and teachers.
Good products can be hurt by experts’ tough ratings

Dec 8, 2024 | news.cornell.edu | Tom Fleischman

Not all online reviews are created equal. Someone who’s posted thousands of times on sites such as Yelp or the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) might be seen as more believable than a relative novice reviewer who’s submitted just a handful. However, that veteran also might be harder to please than the average person, and give a more stringent rating to a product others view as high-quality. New research explores this conundrum.
Microbe atlas could reveal how to mine critical metals sustainably

Nov 14, 2024 | allianceforscience.org | Tom Fleischman

Critical elements such as copper and nickel, and rare earths such as neodymium and dysprosium, are key ingredients for carbon-neutral renewable energy technologies, but obtaining and refining these materials is challenging, especially from low-concentration minerals. Traditional technologies to extract metal from ores cause extreme environmental impacts.
Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways-researchers develop hollow sphere silk particles to test adsorption

Nov 14, 2024 | phys.org | Tom Fleischman

Cornell researchers have developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove another.
Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways

Nov 13, 2024 | news.cornell.edu | Tom Fleischman

Cornell researchers have developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove another. Led by Larissa Shepherd, M.S. ’13, Ph.D. ’17, assistant professor in the Department of Human Centered Design, in the College of Human Ecology, the team has proposed using discarded silk yarn for the removal of dye and oil from water.