News: CBE

This five-year $20 million grant will fund C-GEM research in 14 laboratories at UC Berkeley, Yale, Stanford, Cornell, Boston College, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Read more

Susan Daniel and Gary Whittaker discuss their collaborations and others across Cornell’s campuses that are working to better understand the COVID-19 virus. Read more

Jouha Min (B.S. ChemE 2010) will join the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan as an assistant professor in Winter 2021: https://che.engin.umich.edu/people/min-jouha/ Read more

Lynden A. Archer, the James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor in Engineering, has been named the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering for a five-year term beginning July 1. Read more

Prof. Lynden Archer will be featured in the "Did you know ..." section on Wikipedia's main page and the Archer biographical article is now part of "queue 5:" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions#2_June_2020 Prof. Archer's Wikipedia page can be found here: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynden_Archer) Read more

The book titled, “Wall of Wonder,” includes ChemE alumni Karen Havenstrite (B.S. 2005), Ann Lee (PhD 1983), and Iyore Olaye (B.S. 2016). Read more

Cornell researchers are already making strides against COVID-19. The Cornell faculty boasts world-class virologists, such as Diego Diel, Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, and Hector Aguilar-Carreno, Microbiology and Immunology. Cornell is also home to renowned coronavirus experts Susan Daniel, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Gary Whittaker, Microbiology and Immunology. Read more

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“When we had to shut down our lab, we wanted to see what we could do with our expertise in systems engineering to help the public and provide timely information,” said Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering, who is leading the effort. “We’re viewing this as a citizen science project, but one where accuracy and primary data are paramount.” Read more

The American Automatic Control Council (AACC) has awarded Dr. Fengqi You, Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor, and CBE PhD student, Chao Ning, the prestigious 2020 O. Hugo Schuck Award. The American Automatic Control Council (AACC) was formed in 1957 and represents the United States to the world automatic control community. Nine professional societies are current members of the AACC – the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)... Read more