Immersive education: Oceanography lectures inspire new eCornell course
Attracting more than 1,000 students every fall, Intro to Oceanography is the largest course at Cornell. When Senior Lecturer Bruce Monger started recording the lectures for remote teaching, he...
View ArticleReed 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...
View ArticleHelmet 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.
View ArticleNoninvasive 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...
View ArticleModel 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...
View ArticleCOVID-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...
View ArticleCornell 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.
View ArticleGlobal ‘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.
View ArticleDimensional 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.
View ArticleScore! Engineering startup wins NFL innovation competition
Cornell Engineering startup Organic Robotics Corporation and its stretchable sensing technology, Light Lace, topped a field of four finalists to win the sixth annual NFL 1st & Future competition,...
View ArticleCell-free biotech enables shelf-stable vaccines on demand
Researchers devised a new method of using extracts to create shelf-stable vaccines on demand, a potentially game-changing approach to fighting infection in regions that have limited access to such...
View ArticleNew course empowers students to address diversity in STEM
The seminar explores the ways in which women, people of color and others have been marginalized in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and how to address exclusion.
View ArticleCornell startup raises $44M to advance ‘C Dots’ biotech
Elucida Oncology, a biotechnology company based on C Dots – ultra-small nanoparticles developed at Cornell that show promise in identifying and fighting cancer – recently secured $44 million in...
View ArticleCCMR JumpStart program to fund two NYS companies
Two New York state companies have been chosen to participate this spring in the Cornell Center for Materials Research JumpStart Program, through which they will collaborate with faculty members to...
View Article$1.5M grant to explore integrated reuse of industrial waste, CO2
A new research project will seek an integrated approach to turning sludge, dust and slag into valuable materials by improving the recovery and quality of waste products using carbon dioxide.
View ArticleSoft robots use camera and shadows to sense human touch
Cornell researchers have created a low-cost method for soft, deformable robots to detect a range of physical interactions, from pats to punches to hugs, without relying on touch at all.
View ArticleTester, Collins elected to National Academy of Engineering
Cornell faculty members Jefferson Tester and Lance Collins are among the new class elected to the academy, among the highest professional distinctions for an engineer.
View ArticlePraxis Center and engineering startups grow together
Nearly two years after launching, the Praxis Center for Venture Development is reconfiguring its structure to reflect the growth of engineering startups at Cornell and their specialized needs.
View ArticleCornellian’s website streamlines the vaccine appointment process
Olivia Adams ’14 M.Eng ’15 saw a problem: people in Massachusetts were having a difficult time signing up for COVID-19 vaccine appointments. So, she built a solution
View ArticleAgarwal, Rush, Tschida, Udell win Sloan Fellowships
Four early-career faculty members have won 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which support research and education related to science, technology, mathematics and...
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