Maribel Garcia awardee advances STEM education in Angola
PhD candidate Catia Dombaxe won the 2023 Maribel Garcia Community Spirit Award, a program of the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement. Read more
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Upstate 2.0 wins $1M NSF award to transform economy
A $1M award will support Upstate 2.0, which aims to grow the regional economy in upstate New York while helping to realize the state and nation’s goal of a net-zero carbon economy. Read more
Engineering, Weill Cornell Medicine pilot M.D.-M.Eng. degree
As part of a new cross-college initiative designed to accelerate engineering innovations in medicine, Cornell Engineering is piloting an M.D.-M.Eng. program that allows medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine to earn a one-year professional Master of Engineering degree. Read more
$4.3M grant to develop farm of the future tech
Cutting-edge, data-driven agricultural technologies and precision management strategies designed for the farm of the future will be developed, evaluated and demonstrated, thanks to a four-year, $4.3 million U.S. Department of Agriculture grant. Read more
Prioritize space to dream, OADI alumna tells diverse students
An enthusiastic audience of 100 Cornellians celebrated academic achievements and community at the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives’ annual Honors Award Ceremony on May 5. Read more
‘Phenomenal’ Dead & Co. concert awes a grateful crowd
The Big Red was awash in tie-dye May 8 as Dead & Company came to Barton Hall for a jubilant benefit show that had multiple generations celebrating the return of members of the Grateful Dead to the site of one of their most historic shows. Read more
Commercialization Fellows assess innovations’ potential
Mehrnaz Sabet, Mokshin Suri and Ruben Trujillo make up the latest cohort of the Cornell Engineering Commercialization Fellowship, a program that helps researchers evaluate their technology through a business lens. Read more
Drug industry’s carbon impact could be cut by half
In a first-of-its-kind analysis, Cornell researchers and partners at the Clinton Health Access Initiative found that pharmaceutical producers could reduce their environmental impact by roughly half by optimizing manufacturing processes and supply chain networks and by switching to renewable energy sources. Read more
Holycross wins NSF CAREER award to research Earth's crust
Megan Holycross, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell Engineering, has received an NSF CAREER award to research the origins of the Earth’s continental crust. Read more
Three graduate students chosen for DOE program
The fellowship provides world-class training and access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources at DOE national laboratories. Read more