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The Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) announces that Professor Fengqi You in Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University is the recipient of the prestigious 2022 Stratis V. Sotirchos Lectureship Award. One awardee is selected every two years by a committee of internationally renowned scientists on the grounds of candidates’ original and fundamentally important results in chemical engineering sciences. The selection of the most deserving candidate is made on an international basis and strictly on merit. This award honors the memory of... Read more

According to the most recent survey conducted by U.S. News and World Report, Cornell Chemical Engineering has leaped in rank by four spots, from #18 to #14. Read more

The key to making geothermal competitive with other renewables, is “going into regions where nature hasn’t been so generous, and figuring out a way to engineer the system,” says Cornell University professor Jefferson Tester. He is chief scientist for a pilot project at Cornell that aims to directly heat the 30,000-person campus with geothermal resources by 2035. Read more

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was selected by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Executive Committee award selection panel to receive the 2022 AIChE George Lappin Program Committee Service Award. Read more

Dr. Kaitlin Mallouk, assistant professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department (ExEEd) in the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, has received the 2022 Distinguished Teaching Award for the Middle Atlantic Section of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The award honors an individual in each section, distinguished by region, dedicated to excellence in engineering education. As an organization, ASEE is committed to supporting faculty scholarship and innovative methods that develop pedagogical knowledge. Mallouk received her Bachelor of Science in chemical... Read more

Rong Yang among 11 Cornell assistant and associate professors who have recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Read more

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) by the AIChE Board of Directors. Read more

“There are design decisions such as how many solar panels or wind turbines to install, and how much energy storage capacity to build,” said Fengqi You. Read more

​“Geothermal electricity is always on ,” said Tester. “It can provide fully dispatchable power or heat and is scalable in the same way other renewables are.”​ Read more

Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor Fengqi You and systems Ph.D. student Ning Zhao, had their research featured on the cover of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering with artwork by Rob Kurcoba, graphic designer for Cornell Engineering. The article, "Toward Carbon-Neutral Electric Power Systems in the New York State: a Novel Multi-Scale Bottom-Up Optimization Framework Coupled with Machine Learning for Capacity Planning at Hourly Resolution," appears in the February 7 issue of the journal, and concludes that "expanding electricity storage capacities can reduce the total decarbonization... Read more