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This award honors faculty members who have served as dedicated advocates who foster diversity, inclusion, and equity in higher education through exemplary mentorship, leadership, and/or outreach activities within the Cornell community. Those who receive this award have shown an unwavering commitment to promoting the growth and personal and professional development of graduate and professional students who represent the diversity of the Cornell community. It is given by the Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement at the Graduate School and selected by the Graduate and Professional Diversity... Read more

The President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) has awarded Sijin Li a PCCW Affinito-Stewart Grant for her work on the project titled, "Discover novel plant natural products in a yeast-based synthetic biology platform." Sijin will present to PCCW members during the PCCW Symposium in spring 2020. Read more

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has announced that Robert Langer, Institute Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has won the 2019 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences. The biennial Prize, which includes a $250,000award, is conferred this year in Chemistry in Support of Human Health. The award ceremony will be held at MIT on September 26 and will include a lecture by Langer. Langer is a CBE alumnus, earning a B.S. in chemical engineering in 1970. Read more

Samuel Crozier “Sam” Fleming ’62, a Cornell trustee emeritus, life overseer of Weill Cornell Medicine and a presidential councillor, died May 2 at the age of 78. Fleming was a popular and devoted alumni leader in the Boston area and a longtime supporter of the university across a broad range of departments and programs; he most recently enabled the creation of the Samuel C. Fleming Molecular Engineering Laboratories in Olin Hall and, in 2015 with his wife, Nancy, funded new graduate fellowships in chemical and biomolecular engineering. Read more

As published in the Cornell Chronicle, "Prof. Abe Stroock has spent much of his career studying microfluidics, wet chemical processes on small scales. About a decade ago, he became intrigued by plant microvasculature, the webs of capillaries that move liquid around inside tissue. Plants have two systems: the xylem, which brings water up to the leaves, and the phloem, which carries photosynthetic products down from the leaves to the rest of the plant’s tissues. Important questions remain about how these systems work." Read more

Congratulations to the 2019 NSF Fellowship awardees: Francis Ledesma Olivia Yong Rose Yin This is the first time in Smith School history that three undergrad fellowships were awarded in a single year. Read more

CBE Women, is one of two winners of the 2019 Graduate/Professional Student Organization of the Year Award presented by the Office of Student and Campus Life for exemplary work in Diversity and Inclusion on the Cornell campus. Dean Vijay Pendakur will honor CBE Women at the Perkins Prize and SCL Diversity and Inclusion Reception and Ceremony on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Visit the Perkins Prize award page to learn more about these awards. Read more

The competition car was powered by a zinc alkaline battery and stopped by an iodine clock reaction. The 2019 competition took place at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the distance needed to reach as closely as possible was 15.5 meters. Cornell's ChemE car stopped .95 meters short of the line and finished in third place, qualifying the team for Nationals. The National competition will take place in Orlando, FL at the AIChE Student Conference in November. Participating members of ChemE car were: Judson Freidl, Jonothan Ong-Siong, Brayan Pena, Sophia Oguri, Isabella Romano, Kathy Chen... Read more

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Cornell Engineering ranks #14 among engineering colleges in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings released on March 12, 2019. Cornell also ranked highly in 11 specialty rankings: #12 Aerospace Engineering #03 Biological/Agricultural Engineering #14 Biomedical Engineering #18 Chemical Engineering #11 Civil Engineering #09 Computer Engineering #09 Electrical Engineering #10 Environmental Engineering #09 Industrial/Systems Engineering #08 Materials Engineering #08 Mechanical Engineering Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted... Read more