Prospective Students, Why Cornell Physics?
The Department of Physics at Cornell offers an education hard to find at any other university. From award-winning faculty to research and experimental facilities such as the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source and Cornell Center for Nanoscale Systems, your education at Cornell will include classroom and laboratory experiences that are second to none.
Students and families wishing to visit the Physics Department in order to discuss the majors program with a faculty member can make arrangements by contacting Christine Clay at (607) 255-7562 or cmc439@cornell.edu.
When you make your appointment, be sure to ask about our ambassador program where we have current undergraduate students meet with you (and maybe even show you the lab they work in).
Wui Ip
Professor Carl Franck and student Wui Ip (who is at Cornell as part of the NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program) are studying how cells interact and signal each other to form complicated structures. For example, cells communicate when conditions are good, and they exchange growth factors. Franck and Ip are focusing on the question "Why do cells need company to grow?" It is well known that a minimum culture is needed to grow cells. What determines that ...