The 2025 CNS Alumni Awards
Matthew Tirrell PhD '77, Derrick Maxwell BS '14, and Ahmed A. H. Siddig PhD ’15 have been named the recipients of this year's awards.
Dipankar Saha and Team Co-author Paper on Iron-Nickel Metal Ensembles, a Potential Driver of Clean Energy Production
This research points to a fast, cheap way to arrange iron and nickel to turn water into clean energy fuel.
Scared of Spiders? Laura Figueroa Argues That the Real Horror Story is a World Without Them
Figueroa argues that insects and arachnids are fundamental for human society.
Agroecologist Joshua Arnold to Join International Team Studying Urban Future of Food
The CIFAR Arrell Future of Food Initiative is a multi-year effort to address mounting pressures on the global food system.
Updated Climate Action Tool Curates Best Practices for the Environmentally Motivated
Focused on the northeastern US, the tool is a library curated by scientific experts in the world of climate change.
USDA Awards CNS Food Scientist Lili He $800K Grant to Advance ‘Closer to Zero’ Food Safety Goals
The FDA and USDA’s Closer to Zero (C2Z) initiative is a national effort to reduce toxic elements in foods eaten by babies and young children.
CNS-led International Team May Have Just Found One of the Missing Links in Galaxy Evolution
This research suggests that star formation may have occurred earlier in the universe’s evolution than previously thought.
CNS Physicist Andrea Thamm Recognized with Sloan Research Fellowship
Thamm's research has increasingly looked to a theoretical kind of black hole called a “primordial black hole.”
CNS Researchers Explore Wild Physics That Keeps the Body’s Electrical System Flowing Smoothly
This research demonstrates that the soft, hydrophobic gate regulating the electrical, ionic flows in the BK channels cannot absolutely stop the flow of ions.
Peggi L. Clouston and Alexander C. Schreyer Co-Author Definitive Guide on Mass Timber
This book arrives at a critical time as the architecture, engineering, and construction industry increasingly turns to sustainable wood products.
Physicists at CNS Suggest That We Just Found Traces of an Exploding Black Hole
The team not only accounts for an otherwise impossible neutrino, but shows that the elementary particle could reveal the fundamental nature of the universe.