News: CBE

Founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, Robert F. Smith '85 will be honored with the College of Engineering's 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award later this spring. Read more

Lynden Archer, the James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor in Engineering and the David Croll Director of the Energy Systems Institute, said the transition to clean energy is inherently a systems problem that often has impact in unexpected places. He explained that renewable energy generation from solar and wind installations, have – in the last decade – reached price points that make them competitive without government subsidies Market penetration has been slow because the supply is variable and intermittent, said Archer, discussing a new rechargeable battery technology based on Earth... Read more

Shaoyi Jiang, Ph.D. ’93, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Washington, has been named the first Robert S. Langer ’70 Family and Friends Professor at Cornell. Jiang will join the Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering in July, in a professorship honoring one of the university’s most notable engineering alumni. Read more

Web of Science has released its 2019 list of Highly Cited Researchers, recognizing the world's most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year. Among those listed are: Darrell Schlom, the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry (MSE) David Muller, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering (AEP) Debdeep Jena, the David E. Burr Professor of Engineering (ECE, MSE) Gennady Shvets, professor (AEP) Lynden Archer, the James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor... Read more

"Physical Principles of Membrane Shape Regulation by the Glycocalyx" Brief synopsis: In Physical Principles of Membrane Shape Regulation by the Glycocalyx, published in Cell in Shurer et. al. model the glycocalyx as a classic polymer brush; and we show for the first time how glycocalyx biopolymers can drive membrane bending via an entropic force into various membrane morphologies including membrane projections and vesicles. Both intracellular dynamics and glycocalyx-imposed forces work together to regulate membrane shapes. Read more

Sweet meets heat in “We Cayenne Change the World,” a rich, velvety chocolate ice cream, with a burst of cayenne pepper. Get an extra scoop, as it won Cornell’s annual Food Science 1101 final project. Read more

Aravind Natarajan, formerly of the DeLisa Research Group, will present a seminar in CBE: Monday, December 9 9:00 AM 255 Olin Hall Glycosylation and Science Blender – The Sweet Story of Adventures in Olin Hall Escherichia coli is an exceptional model organism, tolerant to additions and overhauls of metabolic pathways, and recombinant expression of diverse proteins making it a tractable chassis for both the study of complex biological systems and production of therapeutics. However, lab strains of E. coli are unable to perform critical posttranslational modifications, like glycosylation, that... Read more

Five Cornell faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. The association elected 443 new fellows in 2019, honoring their efforts to advance research and its applications in scientifically or socially distinguished ways. New fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin at the AAAS annual meeting, Feb. 15, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. Read more

This year, the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering sent eight members of the Class of 2020 to present research in a wide variety of topics. They were: 1. Jay Bender 2. Dylan Vu 3. Spencer Hong 4. Colette Schissel 5. Jody Mohammad 6. Michelle Quien 7. Priyanka Konan 8. Swetha Thiagarajan Of the eight who presented research, an outstanding five won awards in respective categories. Those who won awards are: 1. Jay Bender - 3rd Place; Catalysis & Reaction Engineering V 2. Dylan Vu - 1st Place; Materials Science & Engineering IX 3. Spencer Hong - 2nd Place; Computing & Process... Read more

Rachel LeCover, PhD student, won the best paper award for her paper entitled: "Kinetic Modeling of Coagulation and Fibrinolysis” at the Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering (FOSBE) conference in Valencia, Spain in October 2019. To read more about the Varner group, please visit the website: http://www.varnerlab.org/ To read more about the FOSBE program, please visit: http://fosbe2019.ai2.upv.es/program/ Read more