Commercialization Fellows explore market for inventions
Doctoral students in Cornell Engineering’s Commercialization Fellowship are developing tools to compress laser pulses, separate blood plasma and 3D print living tissue.
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Engineering student part of grand prize-winning team at 2018 Cornell Animal Health Hackathon
The owners of long-haired dogs have an unsavory problem that is not widely discussed, because, frankly, it’s kind of gross: Small clumps of feces get stuck in their dogs’ fur after the dogs defecate....
Lance Collins receives inaugural Mosaic Medal of Distinction
Lance R. Collins, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell, was presented with the inaugural Mosaic Medal of Distinction on Saturday, Nov. 18, during a luncheon in Washington, D.C., hosted by...
Kan leads $1.5M grant to develop energy-conserving HVAC system
Edwin Kan, professor of electrial and computer engineering, is leading a $1.5 million grant to develop a people counting technology in residential and commercial buildings as an input to energy...
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Silberstein wins DOE grant to study polymer membranes
Meredith Silberstein, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will receive $150,000 a year over the next five years through a Department of Energy early-career program.
Collaboration yields discovery of 12-sided silica cages
A cross-campus collaboration led by materials science professor Uli Wiesner results in visual confirmation of 12-sided, nanoscale cage structures, which could have medical diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
‘Elegant’ design could lead to more powerful, safer lithium metal battery
A group led by chemical engineering professor Lynden Archer and Snehashis Choudhury, Ph.D. '18, proposes a new way to think about the electrolyte structure of a lithium metal battery.
Biomedical engineer Ilana Brito named a Pew Scholar
Ilana Brito, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. Brito will receive a four-year, $300,000 grant to further her study of the human microbiome.
McGovern Center signs Dynamic Boundaries startup
Dynamic Boundaries, a startup that aims to relieve pain and improve mobility for patients suffering from severe osteoarthritis, joined Cornell’s McGovern Center, a business incubator, June 1.
Future of right whales depends on adaptive conservation policies
Humanity may forfeit the chance to save North Atlantic right whales from extinction if conservation policies are not drawn up and implemented fast, says a new Cornell study in Oceanography.
New microscopy method could benefit study of migrating cancer cells
A microscopy technique developed in the lab of assistant professor of biomedical engineering Steven Adie could change the way biomedical researchers study the movement of cancer cells, among other applications.
Opening pyrolysis kiln offers waste-to-reward reality
Waste could soon become a precious gem as Cornell’s new pyrolysis kiln – the largest of its kind at a U.S. university – opened May 24.
Carpenter Advising Awards presented to four faculty members
Four Cornell faculty members received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award for sustained and distinguished contributions to undergraduate advising.