A $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund research, led by Nicholas Abbott from the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, into “microcleaners” for waterways. Read more
Veronica Morales is currently an assistant professor at the University of California Davis in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Morales received her MSc in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from Cornell in 2007, and her Ph.D. in Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell in 2011. Read more
Researchers led by Nicholas Abbott, a Tisch University Professor in the Robert F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, created a way of using synthetic liquid crystals to squeeze red blood cells and gain new insight into individual cells’ mechanical properties. Read more
Cornell engineers have developed a new framework that makes the design of stretchy elastomers a modular process, allowing for the mixing and matching of different metals with a single polymer. Read more
Cornell Engineering has established the Lance R. Collins Fellowship, created to support engineering graduate students from traditionally unrepresented populations, as well as honor its former dean of 10 years. Read more
The Braudy Foundation – founded by Bob Braudy ’65, M.Eng. ’66, and his wife, Judi – has committed to funding a second five-year phase of a research collaboration between Cornell and Northern Arizona University. Read more
Both graduate fields in Cornell’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences have announced that they will be dropping the requirement for the general GRE test. This impacts the fields of Atmospheric Sciences and Geological Sciences. The change in admission process will be effective for the fall 2021 application cycle for all graduate and professional degree programs in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. During 2020, faculty began a new holistic review of applicants to the MS and Ph.D. programs. “In the first round of review, we hid the GRE scores but evaluated the candidates using all of the... Read more
Professor Fengqi You has won the Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Tucker Excellence in Teaching Award. The award was presented at the Fall 2020 Faculty Reception, hosted (virtually) by the College of Engineering at Cornell University. Professor You is the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering and Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The complete list of winners is provided here: Recipient Department Donor Ilana Brito BME Robert '55 and Vanne '57 Cowie David Bindel CS James and Mary Tien Guillaume Lambert AEP Dorothy... Read more
Every year at least 50 volcanic eruptions affect over 10% of the world’s population. Some eruptions like Pinatubo (1991) and Laki (1783) were so powerful that they globally impacted the climate of our planet. The interdisciplinary research team of Natalie Mahowald, Esteban Gazel, and Matthew Pritchard from the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences received a $1.4M grant from NASA to study the global effect of volcanic ash on the Earth system. The project involves collaborators from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), among... Read more
Morgan Irons is about to help make space-exploration history – and all she needed was a shovel and some dirt. Read more
