News: CBE

The CBE Graduate Women’s Group has been selected as the co-winner of this year’s Student Organization Award! Congratulations to all of the amazing group members on this well deserved win. Read more

This is a highly competitive honor, awarded to only five graduate students at Cornell. And given to individuals that embody the five founding principles of character, leadership, advocacy, service, and scholarship, as a way to encourage high-level scholarship to coexist with service and advocacy. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Scholars : Graduate School (cornell.edu) Read more

Empire AI, a $400 million effort to create a shared academic research computing facility, is set to advance dozens of ambitious, cross-disciplinary projects at Cornell. Read more

Assistant professor Rong Yang will research a novel approach to ear infection treatment as the recipient of a 2023 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award. Read more

CBE student Aditi Seshadri won the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow - Prestigious honors from the fellowship program that identifies doctoral students likely to achieve a high level of success in their future academic and professional careers. Aditi Seshadri is a member of the Yue Research Group, which focuses on developing physics-inspired machine learning models and multi-scale simulations of electrolytes and solid/liquid interfaces for energy storage and separations. She works on developing generative machine learning models to design novel electrolytes for energy... Read more

Cornell engineers say that pairing crypto mining – notable for consuming carbon-based fuel – with green hydrogen could provide for wider deployment of renewable energy, such as solar and wind power. Read more

Eight projects have been selected from the Fall 2023 application cycle to receive Ignite Innovation Acceleration grants. The grants are designed to help project teams pursue licensing, form startups, and forge industry collaborations. Read more

James McCormick ’69, M.Eng. ’70, an influential business leader, philanthropist and longtime supporter of education initiatives at Cornell and nationally, received the Cornell Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award during a celebration event on March 7 in Duffield Hall. Read more

For the first time in Cornell Engineering’s history, every school and department currently has, or will soon have, a woman faculty member on the college’s executive leadership team. The milestone comes as the college celebrates the 140th anniversary of its first woman engineer. Read more

Researchers studying large-scale artificial intelligence, microbial biomanufacturing and causal inference methods are among the Cornell researchers who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Read more