Pat Gillespie, Author at Cornell Engineering

Microscale kirigami robot folds into 3D shapes and crawls

Researchers created a robot less than 1 millimeter in size that is printed as a 2D hexagonal “metasheet” but, with a jolt of electricity, morphs into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawls.

Pritchard appointed to volcano early warning advisory committee

Matt Pritchard, professor (EAS), was appointed to a three-year term on National Volcano Early Warning System Advisory Committee. The NVEWS is a national-scale plan to ensure that volcanoes are monitored at levels commensurate to their threats. The plan was developed…

Moridi awarded Young Innovator Award

Atieh Moridi, assistant professor (MAE), has been awarded the 2025 Young Innovator in the Materials Science of Additive Manufacturing Award from the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. The award recognizes “an outstanding, early career individual who is performing innovative…

Falco wins best paper award

Gregory Falco, assistant professor (MAE, Systems), has won the North American Actuarial Journal Best Paper Award for 2023. Falco and his co-authors won for their paper titled “The Economic Impact of Extreme Cyber Risk Scenarios.”…

AI boosts indoor food production’s energy sustainability

Integrating AI into environmental control systems could reduce energy consumption for indoor agriculture by 25% – potentially helping to feed a growing world population.

Cornell alum Rachel Dorin will receive American Innovator Award

The TeraPore Technology co-founder and CEO is featured in the 2024 Faces of American Innovation Report along with four other honorees selected to receive the award.

Mahowald honored by AMS with climate research award

Natalie Mahowald, the Irving Porter Church Professor (EAS), has received the Syukuro Manabe Climate Research Award by American Meteorological Society. The Syukuro Manabe Award is presented to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding of Earth’s…

ORIE’s Garg receives NSF CAREER Award

Nikhil Garg, assistant professor (ORIE), received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to improve public interest decision-making and develop statistical methods to engineer more efficient, transparent public interest systems that account for missing information and heterogeneous behavior.

Wang receives Gold Medal Award

Yi Wang, professor (BME), received the 2024 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Gold Medal Award. Wang received the ISMRM’s highest honor “for his pioneering contributions to the initial development of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping and its many important applications,…

Karl Lewis named a Dempster Rising Star

Karl Lewis, assistant professor (BME), has been named an International Society of Bone Morphometry Dempster Rising Star. The Patricia and David Dempster Rising Star Award for Excellence in Bone Metabolism Research honors exceptional emerging leaders in bone morphometry.