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van der Meulen named associate vice provost

Marjolein van der Meulen, the Swanson Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME, MAE), has been named associate vice provost in the Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation and will support research communities focused on physical systems, encompassing…

EAS’s Saltiel receives $2M DOE award

Seth Saltiel, assistant research professor (EAS), has received a $2M U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science award for his paper, “Process-based experimental and machine learning approaches for controlling fracture network generation in the brittle-ductile crust.”…

Haji, Jung to continue work thanks to NOAA Sea Grant

Maha Haji, assistant professor (MAE, Systems), and Sunny Jung, professor (BEE), will use a new $2.6M grant from NOAA Sea Grant to continue work on a microplastic collecting robot called MOLLUSCA.

High schoolers investigate programmable plants

Forty-five high school students from across the country took part in the 2024 CURIE Academy, a Cornell Engineering program for high school students interested in pursuing undergraduate studies in engineering.

Rev: Ithaca Startup Works puts new entrepreneurs through their paces

Over 10 weeks, 22 teams of would-be entrepreneurs developed products ranging from multilingual children's toys to innovative greenhouse hoops for small-scale farmers.

New 3D reconstruction method aids analysis of property-defining defects

Cornell Engineering researchers are part of a research group that has applied a new X-ray-based reconstruction technique to observe topological defects in a nanoscale self-assembly-based cubic network structure of a polymer-metal composite material.

Spontaneous supercrystal discovered in switching metal-insulator

A supercrystal formation previously unobserved in the thin-film Mott insulator Ca2RuO4 was discovered by a Cornell-led research team, potentially unlocking new ways to engineer materials and devices with tunable electronic properties.

Aguilar-Carreño and van der Meulen named associate vice provosts

Hector Aguilar-Carreño and Marjolein van der Meulen join Natalie Bazarova, who was appointed to the role in 2023, to support research communities and core facilities, labs, institutes and centers that span colleges and campuses.

BME’s Lammerding to receive Leducq Foundation award

Jan Lammerding, professor (BME), will be part of an “International Networks of Excellence” award through the Leducq Foundation. The project, titled PRIORITY: cardio-laminoPathy: fRom pathomechanIsms tO peRsonalIzed TherapY, aims to understand the causes and progression of LMNA-related dilated cardiomyopathy…

SPROUT Awards support 6 novel research collaborations

From exploring the mechanics of early-stage bone metastasis to analyzing price formation policies in wholesale electricity markets, Cornell Engineering’s Sprout Awards are funding unique research projects with the potential to grow partnerships across Cornell.