Surrounded by various artifacts showcasing Cornell Engineering’s past, College of Engineering alumni and faculty spent the weekend in Duffield Hall for various events celebrating the program. Read more
Festivities for Cornell Engineering’s sesquicentennial commenced with a welcoming presentation on its history Friday, featuring keynote speakers Lance Collins, dean of the engineering college, Prof. Emeritus Francis Moon, engineering, and Prof. Emeritus John Abel, civil and environmental engineering. Read more
This weekend, the engineering department hosted students, faculty and alumni at a series of talks, panel discussions and ceremonies commemorating 150 years of teaching and research. While the events opening events Friday focused on the college’s history, Saturday’s events looked to the future of both Cornell’s college and the engineering field in genera Read more
LA Times: The monumental task of building California's bullet train will require punching 36 miles of tunnels through the geologically complex mountains north of Los Angeles. Read more
Cornell researchers have engineered a tissue culture that mimics the complex environment of lymphomas – a technology that promises to rapidly advance our understanding and treatment of these tumors. Read more
In the late 19th century, Cornell students enjoyed visually striking class lectures and extracurricular talks thanks to lantern slides – 4-by-3.25-inch projected glass slides that illustrated all subjects. Read more
Cornell University’s entry for the International Genetically Engineered Machine synthetic biology competition earned three prizes and a gold medal at the 12th annual iGEM Giant Jamboree in Boston. Read more
Cornell undergraduate students from a geophysics class will deploy a network of 15 seismometers around campus into the late fall, through which they will collect data for a year. Read more
Electronic Products: Researchers from Cornell University have developed a lightweight, stretchable material, similar in consistency to memory foam, which has connected pores so as to allow fluids to be pumped through it. Read more
Yahoo!: Scientists have created an artificial heart made of foam that could be better than existing devices at pumping blood around the body. Read more
