News: CBE

CBE Ph.D. student, Chao Ning, received the 2019 AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Best Student Paper Award. The award consists of an award plaque, $500 of travel support for him to attend AIChE meeting, and a ticket to the SEF banquet at AIChE. Chao will also give a plenary lecture on his work at the SEF Plenary Session at AIChE. To read more about the award, please visit the AIChE website: https://www.aiche.org/community/awards/sustainable-engineering-forum-student-paper-award. Read more

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) honored Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor at Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, with the Excellence in Process Development Research Award. AIChE is the world’s leading organization for chemical engineering professionals, with more than 60,000 members from over 110 countries. Sponsored by Pfizer, the AIChE Process Development Division Research Award is highly competitive, and it is presented by AIChE to recognize an individual, who have made significant technical contributions to the advancement of... Read more

A new type of treatment for osteoarthritis, currently in canine clinical trials, shows promise for eventual use in humans. Read more

Projects ranging from a soil-swimming robot that can sense conditions in the root zone in real time to computational models that can predict produce spoilage received seed funds from the Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture’s new Research Innovation Fund. Read more

A study led by Fengqi You , the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, proposed two hybrid energy systems based on Cornell’s Ithaca campus, using geothermal energy in combination with other sources. First author of the paper is Xueyu Tian, M.S. ‘19, who will begin his doctoral studies at Cornell next month and is a researcher in You’s lab. Read more

The Mong Fellows program will nurture the next generation of scientists and projects at the interface between technology and studies of the function and dysfunction of the brain. About the Mong Fellowship Program: Funding will be provided to exceptionally talented postdoctoral fellows (Mong Senior Fellows) or graduate students (Mong Junior Fellows) pursuing risky, highly creative, projects focused on the development and application of novel technologies for understanding neural function. Appropriate proposals will involve work at early stages, when traditional funding mechanisms are inadequate... Read more

One of the 10 projects supported with this funding is titled, "Expanding AnyTown USA Wastewater Treatment Facilities Into Local Microgrid Hubs" and includes CBE professors Jeff Tester and Fengqi You, as well as Ruth Richardson, civil and environmental engineering; Lori Leonard, development sociology; and Francis Vanek, civil and environmental engineering. Professor You is also a lead investigator on a second funded project titled, "Design Research for Carbon Removal," along with Jamie Vanucchi, landscape architecture; Timur Dogan, architecture; Johannes Lehmann, soil and crop sciences; Allison... Read more

Sam Fleming '62, who served as a Cornell trustee emeritus until his death in May, had been a champion of Cornell’s growth in biomolecular engineering. In 2015, he and his family supported the school through an endowment of graduate fellowships in that field. Read more

Morehouse College grads are surprised by the billionaire's promise to pay off their student loans. "On behalf of the eight generations of my family who have been in this country, we're going to put a little fuel in your bus," Smith told the newly minted graduates in Atlanta before saying his family was creating a grant to eliminate their student loans. Read more

The team lead by Professor Yong Joo, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University has been down-selected as a Phase II U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Battery500 Seedlings project. In 2017, Joo group partnered with EIC Labs started working on the development of highly load cathode and coated separator for Li-sulfur batteries as one of 12 Phase I DOE Battery 500 Seedling Projects whose purpose is to identify proof-of-concept that will complement the research in the Battery 500 Program to research, develop and demonstrate lithium-battery technologies capable of achieving a cell... Read more