The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded an interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers $2 million to study the combination of inorganic semiconductor nanoparticles and bacterial cells for more efficient bioenergy conversion. Read more
The seventh Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine symposium, held in partnership with the Library of Alexandria and Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), will be hosted in Cairo, Egypt in November 2019. This year, hundreds of outstanding applications were received from the Arab region and the United States with only a small fraction of the applicants invited to participate. For more information the symposium visit: https://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/dsc/AAFrontiers/index.htm For more information on the You Group visit: http://peese.org/ Read more
Joseph Le Doux is associate chair for undergraduate studies and an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He joined the department in 1999 as an assistant professor because he was inspired by the vision of the department’s founding chair, Don Giddens, to educate engineers who were integrative thinkers who could operate seamlessly between the engineering and life sciences. As part of his contribution to the department’s efforts to realize this vision, Dr. Le Doux invented the problem-solving studio approach for... Read more
Prof. Geoff Coates and his collaborators including Prof. Chris Alabi (CBE), consequently developed a multiblock polymer – Coates jokingly refers to it as “magic pixie dust” – that binds polyethylene to polypropylene so they can be recycled together. He and his team are also aiming to design a plastic that behaves like polyethylene, so if such packaging does make its way into the ocean, it will degrade back to carbon dioxide and water rather than drift around for hundreds of years. Read more
For Christian Nowak, the knowledge of objective permanence provided by the natural sciences sparked a life-long affinity for the subject. “English was my second language while growing up, which meant that I’d occasionally have difficulty interpreting certain linguistic idiosyncrasies or explaining concepts relating to the social sciences,” says Nowak. “With the physical sciences and mathematics, however, misinterpretation was never an issue, because the fundamentals never change. Two plus two will always equal four, and I find myself drawn to this objective understanding of our world,” Nowak... Read more
Fengqi You,the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering, is senior author of “ Robust Model Predictive Control of Irrigation Systems With Active Uncertainty Learning and Data Analytics,” which published online in May in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. The paper was co-authored with Abraham Stroock ’95, the Gordon L. Dibble ’50 Professor and William C. Hooey Director of the Smith School, who is working on water conservation strategies with apple farmers in New York state and almond, apple and grape growers in drought-ridden regions of the West Coast... Read more
A predictive model combining information about plant physiology, real-time soil conditions and weather forecasts can save 40% of the water consumed by traditional irrigation strategies, according to new Cornell research. Read more
Five students from Watertown’s Wiley Intermediate School 4-H after-school program will watch their experiment soar from Cape Canaveral on July 21 to the International Space Station. Read more
With a generous gift from Sam and Nancy Fleming to support graduate student research in the biomolecular program, the department selects students each year to be named "Fleming Scholars." Through a competitive process, the fellowships are awarded to outstanding PhD students pursuing research in biomolecular engineering and who have distinguished themselves as promising scholars in their particular areas. The scholars were evaluated by select biomolecular faculty members on the basis of their research productivity and career/professional development. I am pleased to announce the Fleming... Read more
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
