Prof. Fengqi You of Cornell University estimated that thanks to the combination of computing power and better algorithms, a computation that would have taken 124 years in 1988 would now take one second. And D-Wave's Cathy McGeoch said that in response to some of the early results produced on D-Wave hardware, people started revisiting some classical algorithms and made large strides in performance. Read more
The 2019 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences will be awarded to Robert Langer, Institute Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, today, September 26, at 5:00 pm EST, in room 26-100 at MIT. The ceremony, which will be open to the public and feature a talk by Langer on Chemistry in Support of Human Health, will stream live at https://cheme.mit.edu/dreyfus-prize-webcast/ Langer will be honored for discoveries and inventions of materials for drug delivery systems and tissue engineering that have had a transformative impact on human health through the chemical sciences. To learn more... Read more
The Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering would like to extend a warm welcome to the incoming class of M.S. and Ph.D. students! Read more
Prof. You also received the Excellence in Review award in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research revealed its Excellence in Review Award winners, recognizing Prof. Fengqi You. I&EC Research greatly appreciates the nearly 6000 people who have completed reviews during the last 12 months. These reviewers give their time, experience, and expertise to guide editors, assist authors, and advance the effective communication of chemical research. The complete list of 32 reviewers who have made especially notable contributions to I&EC Research during the last 12 months are... Read more
Prof. DeLisa has been selected by the Emmanuel Giannelis (VPR) to serve as the next Director of the Institute of Biotechnology. The Institute has played a central role in the biosciences and bioengineering at the Cornell for several decades. It is the home of the Biotechnology Resource Center and the long running Center for Advanced Technology grant from NYS. For more about the Institute of Biotechnology, please visit: http://www.biotech.cornell.edu/. Read more
Shuler, as recipient of the 2019 Biotechnology Progress Award for Excellence in Biological Engineering Publication, will be recognized at the November AIChE Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The Biotechnology Progress Award for Excellence in Biological Engineering Publication recognizes outstanding contributions to the literature in biomedical engineering, biological engineering, biotechnology, biochemical engineering and related fields. The award, which is presented annually at the AIChE Annual Meeting, celebrates excellence and foundational contributions to biotechnology and biological... Read more
The Discovery Space program at Imperial College in London does. This summer, in a fast-paced and immersive environment, undergraduate chemical engineers from Cornell applied classroom theory to real-life objectives over the course of five weeks. Feifei Hu ’21 was one of the 21 chemical engineering students from Cornell who participated in the program. From her mentor, Dr. Colin Hale, she learned about the role that chemical engineers can play in finding climate change solutions. Read more
The team will be led by Peng Chen, the Peter J.W. Debye Professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, who is collaborating with Tobias Hanrath, professor at the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Buz Barstow, Ph.D. ’09, assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The Cornell project was one of six selected by the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research to explore microscopic imaging of plants and microbes as a way to advance bioenergy research. Read more
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
