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Professor David Putnam has been named the inaugural Associate Dean for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Read more

Tester , Jefferson W., Croll Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. For leadership in development of novel renewable energy systems. Read more

The project is the latest iteration of an ongoing collaboration between Matthew DeLisa, the William L. Lewis Professor in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and director of the Cornell Institute of Biotechnology, and Michael Jewett, a professor of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University and director of Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology, both co-senior authors of the paper. Read more

Tobias Hanrath, the Marjorie L. Hart ’50 Professor in Engineering, in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; and David Erickson, the S.C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, had both applied independently for grants from NEXUS-NY – a clean energy business accelerator funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). Read more

“For the past several years, I have been pursuing multi-scale systems engineering,” You says. “We address problems ranging from molecular and materials design to climate change, using computing and systems technologies such as quantum computing and artificial intelligence.” He’s tracking down every missed opportunity, every point where energy leaks from a system, and finding ways to plug the hole. Read more

The heat of the earth is a vast untapped resource that could be used to heat not just homes but entire communities. Heating exceeds 20% of fossil fuel consumption across northern tiers of North America, Europe, Asia, and we need a low-carbon alternative. Shifting to electrical sources is not an efficient solution. Cornell University plans to do this through a project known as Earth Source Heat. Engineers at Cornell University are planning to utilize geothermal heat from intermediate temperature rocks (60-100°C) as a source of direct-use energy. This is a significant part of Cornell’s overall... Read more

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering and a Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Ning Zhao, a doctoral student in the Process-Energy-Environmental Systems Engineering (PEESE) lab, examined a variety of carbon-neutral energy systems and decarbonization methods after the state passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) in July 2019. Read more

Cornell Professor David Putnam has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the organization announced on December 8, 2020. Read more

Sarah Hormozi’s talk at the Physics of Dense Suspension Symposium appeared on the cover of Journal of Rheology in November (Vol. 64, No. 6). The Hormozi research team has designed a frictionless model suspension and characterized its rheology across multiple lengths for the first time by performing atomic force microscopy and conventional rheometry experiments. The results indicate the presence of inertial effects in an overdamped system of suspension close to jamming. These experimental findings do not entirely follow the current theoretical paradigms and add to open-ended questions in... Read more

AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2020 Fellows Susan Daniel, Cornell University: For pioneering work that has yielded new approaches to the study of the biophysical interactions at cellular membranes, particularly involving microvesicles and viruses. Read more