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April 23, 2018
Molnar, Jena and Xing join national consortium to develop future cellular infrastructure
Three Cornell faculty will be part of the newly established $27.5 million ComSenTer, a center for... read more
April 23, 2018
Three students named delegates to Clinton Foundation conference
Saloni Verma ’18, Kiyan Rajabi ’18 and Imani Majied ’19 will be delegates to the Clinton Global... read more
April 20, 2018
Engineers to hack 50-year-old computing problem with new center
Cornell engineers are part of a national effort to reinvent computing by developing new solutions... read more
April 19, 2018
Novo Nordisk commits nearly $7 million for Minglin Ma's diabetes research
The lab of Minglin Ma, associate professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will... read more
April 19, 2018
Rovers and robots and beats, oh my! BOOM celebrates 20th year
The 20th annual Bits on our Minds technology showcase brought together approximately 140 students... read more
April 19, 2018
Eleven assistant professors win NSF early-career awards
Eleven assistant professors from Cornell's Ithaca and New York City campuses have received... read more
April 19, 2018
A first for quantum physics: electron orbitals manipulated in diamonds
Applied physicists have demonstrated a technique for engineering key optical properties of diamond... read more
April 18, 2018
ECE Women Advance Gender Equity in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cornell ECE’s undergraduate gender ratio is trending upward—35% women in 2017 versus just 13% in... read more
April 18, 2018
Cornell students paint a fashion runway green
The Ecouture 2018 environmental fashion show April 14 featured Colorful and creative couture that’s... read more
April 17, 2018
Yüksel receives 2018 Outstanding TA Award from Cornell ECE
Hazal Yüksel, a Ph.D. candidate from the Molnar Group has been selected to receive the 2018... read more
April 12, 2018
Nanoscale facility partners with German photonics firm
The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility has entered into a partnership with the... read more
April 10, 2018
App helps users choose wardrobe based on weather
Matt Barker ‘19 and Austin Astorga ’19 created Brella, an app that delivers a personalized daily... read more
April 10, 2018
Demo day, Big Idea competition top Celebration 2018
Cornell Entrepreneurs of the Year Steve Conine ’95 and Niraj Shah ‘95, co-founders of Wayfair, will... read more
April 10, 2018
Lysandrou receives aerospace industry fellowship
Padraig Lysandrou, ECE B.S. ’18 and an early M.Eng. student in MAE at Cornell was recently awarded... read more
April 10, 2018
Immune-engineered device targets chemo-resistant lymphoma
A multi-campus study of lymphoma shows that certain cell mutations in tumors can cause the cancer... read more
April 10, 2018
Algae-forestry, bioenergy mix may help make CO2 vanish from thin air
Scientists from Cornell, Duke and the University of Hawaii have an idea that could provide power... read more
April 10, 2018
Next-generation rechargeable battery made with tin
Archer group has demonstrated a cost-effective way to stabilize lithium and sodium anodes using tin... read more
April 10, 2018
Materials, microbiomes displayed at D.C. STEM event
Scientists represented Cornell at the annual USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington,... read more
April 4, 2018
Smart Meter project puts power in the hands of people
Through a collaboration between Cornell researchers and energy industry partners, New... read more
April 3, 2018
Cornell startup Orthofit combats workplace injuries
Orthofit, the newest member of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, is refining the prototype of its... read more
April 3, 2018
Breakthrough made in atomically thin magnets
Cornell researchers have become the first to control atomically thin magnets with an electric... read more
April 2, 2018
NYT Op-Ed: Beware of A.I. in Social Media Advertising
An op-ed by Dipayan Ghosh, ECE Ph.D. '13, a former student of Prof. Stephen Wicker. read more
March 30, 2018
Cancer symposium aims to unify Cornell researchers
Cornell will hold the first Annual Cancer Research Symposium to showcase diverse and groundbreaking... read more
March 29, 2018
Cornell touts Sustainability Month with over 80 events
Cornell goes green by celebrating Earth with Sustainability Month during April. More than 80 events... read more
March 29, 2018
Students’ bus stop sign design becomes roadside reality
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit is installing nearly 560 bus stop signs, redesigned in... read more
March 29, 2018
For Dragon Day 2018, first-year architects have transparent plans
Dragon Day, the annual spring rite celebrated by first-year architecture students at Cornell for... read more
March 28, 2018
Cornell ECE ranked among best in U.S. News grad school rankings
The 2019 U.S. News & World Report ranking of graduate schools has been published, and the School of... read more
March 24, 2018
Campus leaders pay tribute to Peter Meinig at memorial service
Campus leaders, students and family members attended a memorial service for the late Peter Meinig,... read more
March 22, 2018
Delimitrou receives Facebook Hardware & Software Systems Research Award
Cornell ECE Assistant Professor Christina Delimitrou has recently been awarded a Facebook Hardware... read more
March 22, 2018
Turn your lights off for Earth March 24
Cornell will celebrate “Earth Hour” March 24, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., when community members are... read more
March 22, 2018
Cornell to help jump-start seven NY businesses
Seven New York state businesses have been awarded funding to participate in the Cornell Center for... read more
March 20, 2018
Online tech is changing the dynamics of gift-giving
Online gift-giving is spreading in social networks and causing people to give more gifts – online... read more
March 19, 2018
Sugar-coated vesicles prove effective in laboratory tests on deadly pathogens
The labs of Matt DeLisa and Dave Putnam has teamed with a group from Harvard to work on a vaccine... read more
March 16, 2018
Give to ECE on Cornell's Giving Day, March 20, 2018
Make an exponential difference - Increase your support by a factor of 2.718—tell your friends! read more
March 15, 2018
$1.6M grant may turn sediment into port city pay dirt
Landscape Architecture’s Brian Davis and Sean Burkholder, University at Buffalo, received a $1.6... read more
March 15, 2018
Re-architecting Next-Gen Computing Systems
Disaggregated architectures have the potential to increase resource capacity by 10 to 100 times... read more
March 13, 2018
Sustainability sows a healthy business climate
The color of money may be the best tint for keeping the world from warming was a key message at the... read more
March 12, 2018
Grant seeks to diversify participation in biology, biomedical graduate studies
A new initiative aims to increase participation rates and enhance the success of under-represented... read more
March 12, 2018
Quick pulse of laser light can cause dramatic shift in material's properties
Assistant professor Nicole Benedek and postdoc Guru Khalsa are working to perfect a method for... read more
March 12, 2018
New technique simplifies creation of nanoparticle 'magic-sized clusters'
A collaboration of two Cornell research groups has proposed a novel method for producing groups of... read more
March 8, 2018
Dire levels of CO2 will decimate oceans in 200 years
Sustained climate warming will drive the ocean’s fishery yields into steep decline 200 years from... read more
March 8, 2018
Scientists unravel complex factors of starfish diseases
Cornell University scientists are beginning to unravel the complicated connections between viruses,... read more
March 7, 2018
Undergrads: Apply for summer research opportunities at Cornell Tech
Up to 10 undergraduate students from the Ithaca campus will spend their summer doing research on... read more
March 7, 2018
Novel semiconductor-superconductor structure features versatile gallium nitride
A research group led by Debdeep Jena of electrical and computer engineering has successfully... read more
March 6, 2018
New working group on disasters launches with March 14 talk
A new cross-college working group on disasters kicks off with a public presentation by... read more
March 5, 2018
Cornell scientists size up quality wastewater treatment
Cornell scientists have assessed factors to improve, upgrade and make New York’s wastewater... read more
February 28, 2018
Cornell helps unlock doors to careers in data science
A course offered by Computer Science, Operations Research and Information Engineering and the... read more
February 28, 2018
NASA-Cornell collaboration will study desert dust's impact on climate from space
A $60 million collaboration between NASA and Cornell University will examine deserts' impact on... read more
February 21, 2018
Faculty team wins NYC sustainable design competition
A collaborative exhibition project created by four faculty members featuring reused grain... read more
February 21, 2018
The Silent Stalker: how to protect yourself from cellular tracking
Stephen Wicker is interviewed by WENY News. Did you know your cellphone is constantly tracking you? read more
February 20, 2018
Andrew Ferraiuolo receives ECE Outstanding Thesis Research Award
"I am particularly excited about Andrew's work because it shows how we can build a practical... read more
February 16, 2018
Prince Charles gives Cornell reef research a royal shout-out
Research on how plastics adversely affect coral reefs received a royal shout-out from the Prince of... read more
February 15, 2018
Suntivich receives Sloan Foundation Fellowship
MSE Assistant Professor Jin Suntivich has received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship. read more
February 8, 2018
New grad housing is living lab for heat pump study
At the Maplewood Apartments project, now under construction, Cornell engineering students will... read more
February 8, 2018
Smart herbs, weather app among Engineering Innovation winners
Thirty-three teams entered the Cornell Engineering Innovation Award Competition; prizes were... read more
February 7, 2018
Host-microbe institute poised to expand
The launch of its Undergraduate Research Experience proved to be a highlight of the Cornell... read more
February 5, 2018
Interested in social entrepreneurship? Become a 'change-maker'
Cornell delegates to the Clinton Global Initiative University presented their commitments to action... read more
February 1, 2018
Cornelia Ye Award recognizes teaching assistants Aguillon, Natarajan
Graduate teaching assistants Stepfanie Aguillon and Aravind Natarajan were honored with the 2017-18... read more
January 25, 2018
Oceanic plastic trash conveys disease to coral reefs
An international research group led by Cornell University has found that plastic trash – ubiquitous... read more
January 24, 2018
Wayfair founders named 2018 Cornell Entrepreneurs of the Year
Niraj Shah ’95 and Steve Conine ’95, founders of Wayfair, have been named 2018 Cornell... read more
January 23, 2018
Apsel named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
ECE Professor Alyssa Apsel was recently named a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Circuits and... read more
January 22, 2018
U.S. News ranks Systems DL program in top 10
Cornell's Systems DL program is in the top 10 on the 2018 ranking of Best Online Graduate... read more
January 19, 2018
Bonassar Group helps develop new cell therapy
Development and testing by engineering professor Larry Bonassar and his group helped a New England... read more
January 16, 2018
Engineers create new architecture for vaporizable electronics
Engineers have demonstrated a new method to remotely vaporize electronics, giving devices and data... read more
January 11, 2018
Lynden Archer to lead Cornell Energy Systems Institute
Lynden Archer, professor of chemical and biolomolecular engineering, is the new director of the... read more
January 11, 2018
Cornell extends partnership with Public Prep in NYC
Cornell University has extended its partnership to incorporate computer science instruction and... read more
January 10, 2018
Leadership committee to guide Earth Source Heat effort on campus
Prof. Tester, who has been involved with geothermal research and development for more than 30... read more
January 10, 2018
Alyssa Apsel named next Director for Cornell ECE
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University is pleased to announce the... read more
January 9, 2018
French president taps climate scientist to ‘Make Our Planet Great Again’
Louis Derry, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, has won a grant from the French... read more
January 2, 2018
Removable implant may control type 1 diabetes
In an example of cross-campus collaboration, a group led by Minglin Ma has developed a unique... read more
December 21, 2017
UCLA-Cornell Team Win Award Intel-NSF Award for Heterogeneous Computing Research Effort
UCLA and Cornell Research Team Win Award from Intel and the National Science Foundation For... read more
December 21, 2017
Imaging tool could find early signs of arterial plaque
Using multi-photon microscopy developed at Cornell, a group led by Nozomi Nishimura has shown the... read more
December 15, 2017
Cornell collaboration reports unique property of bilayer graphene
The group reports remarkably clear observations of excitons – electrically neutral quasiparticles –... read more
December 15, 2017
Students envision future of Hudson River town confronting flooding
Residents of Piermont, New York are facing climate change, as Hudson River flooding begins to... read more
December 13, 2017
Commercialization fellows present new technologies
Doctoral students in Cornell’s Commercialization Fellows program gathered Dec. 8 to present their... read more
December 13, 2017
Engaged Faculty Fellows connect classroom and community
Seven faculty members are part of the yearlong Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program, which focuses on... read more
December 13, 2017
Engineers program tiny robots to move, think like insects
Cornell engineers are experimenting with new programming that mimics the way an insect’s brain... read more
December 13, 2017
Engineers scrap the stethoscope, measure vital signs with radio waves
Cornell engineers have demonstrated a method for gathering vital signs using a cheap and covert... read more
December 12, 2017
Climate scientists study the odds of a megadrought
Cornell climate scientists and their colleagues have developed a “robust null hypothesis” to assess... read more
December 6, 2017
Max Zhang: Local engagement yields ‘real social impact’
Professor Max Zhang makes a concerted effort to improve the world through collaboration. read more
December 6, 2017
New Mechatronics final project has students, robots going cube crazy
Professor Hadas Kress-Gazit thought it was time that her junior-level Mechatronics class switched... read more
December 4, 2017
Cornell team devises rapid test for vitamin A, iron deficits
“We must address the micronutrient problem at the individual level – which is a much easier task.... read more
November 30, 2017
On the highway to health: trimming toxins with trees
Doctoral candidates Khaled Hashad and Bo Yang, and undergraduate researcher Dan Shaw ’18 – all... read more
November 29, 2017
Lance Collins receives inaugural Mosaic Medal of Distinction
The medal recognizes Cornell faculty members, administrators and alumni for their impact and... read more
November 28, 2017
Contactless health-care sensing
A system for monitoring a person’s vital signs — such as their blood pressure and heart rate —... read more
November 22, 2017
Controlling Ultra-high Speed Electron Tunneling Waves
Advances in epitaxial growth and device fabrication at Cornell, have led to groundbreaking... read more
November 20, 2017
Graduate students spark public interest in electricity
Josue San Emeterio of the Pollack Lab in Applied Physics is part magician, a wedge of wizard and... read more
November 17, 2017
Kan leads $1.5M grant to develop energy-conserving HVAC system
System could reduce energy usage by up to 30% using people-counting technology. read more
November 15, 2017
Women lead Cornell’s undergraduate BME Society
All members of Meinig School undergrad society executive board are women read more
November 9, 2017
Geoengineering might address climate change, MacMartin tells Congress
MacMartin, senior researcher and lecturer of mechanical and aerospace engineering for Cornell... read more
November 7, 2017
Engineers turn research into prototypes with Scale Up Awards
Professors Putnam, Bonassar develop synthetic lubricant for osteoarthritis treatment read more
November 7, 2017
Zhiru Zhang wins UCLA Rising Professional Achievement Award
ECE Assistant Professor Zhiru Zhang recently received the Rising Professional Achievement Award... read more
November 2, 2017
Where did those electrons go? Decades-old mystery solved
Where did those electrons go? read more
October 31, 2017
Cornell Engineering team develops substrates for vaporizing sensors remotely
A team of researchers from Cornell Engineering has developed novel polymer-based substrates for... read more
October 25, 2017
Fluid dynamics lab named in honor of Charles Williamson
In a surprise ceremony Oct. 21 in the Upson Hall Lounge, the Fluid Dynamics Water Channel Lab was... read more
October 25, 2017
ECE junior wins IEEE PES scholarship award
Firehiwot Gurara, a junior at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell... read more
