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Microsoft Azure outage: Websites come back online

Reusable nanofiber membrane filters water sustainably

A Cornell research group has developed a cyclodextrin-based fibrous membrane that in lab testing removed approximately 90% of aqueous triclosan, an antibacterial agent that poses a threat to aquatic organisms.

Cornell concerned about funding NanoScale facility

R.F. Smith School to ‘revolutionize’ chemical engineering with NSF grant

With the support of a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant from the National Science Foundation, the R.F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering will update its undergraduate curriculum, completely overhaul how it is delivered and reshape the school’s culture.

Droids descend on Cornell for robotics conference

The Northeastern Robotics Conference (NERC), held Saturday, Oct. 11 at Cornell, featured more than 100 robots research projects from the region, including a shadowboxing droid and a backflipping robot dog.

EPICC Awards honor engineering faculty, staff for embodying values

Cornell Engineering celebrated its fourth annual EPICC Awards on Oct. 21, recognizing faculty and staff whose work exemplifies the college’s core values of excellence, purpose, innovation, community, and collaboration.

NYC tower where J-Lo and A-Rod lived is covered in cracks

NIH MERIT award goes to De Vlaminck

Iwijn De Vlaminck, associate professor, has received a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health. This prestigious and highly selective award will fund the De Vlaminck lab’s research on CD8+ T cell activation and development throughout early life…

Wang named Corrsin Award recipient

Z. Jane Wang, professor, was recognized as the recipient of the American Physical Society’s 2025 Stanley Corrsin Award. Wang was selected “for original and innovative work on insect flight that provided fundamental insights into unsteady aerodynamics,…

Hare receives Stix Award

Jack Hare, assistant professor, has received the American Physical Society’s 2025 Thomas H. Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Physics Research. Hara was cited for “For the development and exploration of pulsed-power experimental platforms to investigate…