Dimensional Energy emerges as $20M Carbon X Prize finalist
Dimensional Energy – a McGovern Center startup that converts carbon dioxide via sunshine into eco-friendly aviation fuel – is a finalist for the $20 million Carbon X Prize. Read more
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Students win NASA challenge with 3D-printer smart sensor
A team of Cornell students has won a grant through NASA’s University Student Research Challenge for a proposed sensor that can help 3D printers build better, more reliable products. The challenge... Read more
Global ‘wind atlas’ propels sustainable energy
Cornell wind energy scientists have released a new global wind atlas – a digital compendium filled with documented extreme wind speeds – to improve turbine placement. Read more
Sibley Ph.D. candidate shares his experience as a first-generation college student
Xiangkun Elvis Cao, a Ph.D. candidate in the Sibley School’s Erickson Lab, shares his experience of successfully navigating his way through hardship from rural China as a first-generation college student to landing on Forbes 30 Under 30 for North America. He discusses the shared challenges first-generation students and underrepresented minorities in academia face: economic and social burden, exclusion, discrimination, and lack of access to information and mentoring. Read more in his opinion piece “Navigating My Way as a First-Generation Student,” published online in the journal Matter. Read more
Cornell startup looks to score in NFL innovation competition
Organic Robotics Corporation, a Cornell startup founded in 2018, will compete in the sixth annual NFL 1st & Future competition, to be televised Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. EST on the NFL Network. Read more
Cornell startup to compete in NFL innovation competition
Organic Robotics Corporation, a Cornell engineering startup founded in 2018, is in the finals the sixth annual NFL 1st & Future competition, airing Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. EST on the NFL Network. Read more
COVID-19 research seed grants yielding rapid results
Professor Iwijn De Vlaminck is working on using cell-free DNA – discarded scraps of DNA – as a way of gaining understanding of COVID-19’s effects on the organs of children who've been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Read more
Model makers: How engineers saved the fall, spring semesters
As the spring semester begins, a team of engineering students and faculty has finished tweaking the master schedule, using lessons they learned last fall during their heroic effort to help Cornell safely hold in-person classes. Read more
Noninvasive blood test tracks organ injury from COVID-19
A Cornell-led collaboration has developed a noninvasive blood test that uses cell-free DNA to gauge the damage that COVID-19 inflicts on cells, tissues and organs, and could help aid in the development of new therapies. Read more
Helmet design protects dentists, doctors from COVID-19
Simulations show the helmet, designed by the Esmaily Lab, prevents 99.6% of virus-containing droplets exhaled by medical patients from reaching the environment. Read more
Reed awarded $1.4M grant to advance human-natural system modeling
A Cornell engineer is advancing the field of ‘multi-sector dynamics’ with a new $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy that will focus on techniques for better projecting the outcomes of human interactions with the natural world. Read more