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Winter 2025: Nano Stories

Bite-sized stories with outsized impact!

Overheard

“I feel that working together, you guys, we can use the progress of science, the engineering of stuff that moves, and we can – dare I say it – change the world!”

– “Science Guy” Bill Nye ’77 at the Sibley 150 celebration, hosted April 25 in Upson Hall to mark 150 years of mechanical engineering at Cornell.

“I feel that working together, you guys, we can use the progress of science, the engineering of stuff that moves, and we can – dare I say it – change the world!”

– “Science Guy” Bill Nye ’77 at the Sibley 150 celebration, hosted April 25 in Upson Hall to mark 150 years of mechanical engineering at Cornell.

“I feel that working together, you guys, we can use the progress of science, the engineering of stuff that moves, and we can – dare I say it – change the world!”

– “Science Guy” Bill Nye ’77 at the Sibley 150 celebration, hosted April 25 in Upson Hall to mark 150 years of mechanical engineering at Cornell.

“I feel that working together, you guys, we can use the progress of science, the engineering of stuff that moves, and we can – dare I say it – change the world!”

– “Science Guy” Bill Nye ’77 at the Sibley 150 celebration, hosted April 25 in Upson Hall to mark 150 years of mechanical engineering at Cornell.

Bill Nye speaks enthusiastically to engaged students in front of the Bill Nye solar noon clock

Around Campus

Mark Tarazi ’24, who managed Cornell Engineering’s Rapid Prototyping Lab as a student, 3D printed shackle alignment tabs used by engineers to help scrub invasive mussels and debris out of an intake pipe that feeds Cornell’s Lake Source Cooling system, which pumps 32,000 gallons of cold water per minute to campus.

Career Center advisor works with student at whiteboard on coding interview

In the Field

The Engineers in Action student project team has built footbridges connecting thousands of people in Eswatini, Africa, to schools, health care and markets. Now the group is expanding their impact with two new projects: a solarpowered groundwater and disinfection system to ensure clean drinking water, as well as a new suspension bridge to be constructed in 2025.

Students work in the Cornell Engineering rapid prototyping lab