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Featuring the Steen Research Group: http://steen.engineering.cornell.edu/bio-2/ Read more

Cornell food scientists hunting for a stable, natural red food coloring to replace artificial dyes have unlocked a secret: Use beet extract and pair it with a starchy partner, according to research published Feb. 8 in the journal Food Hydrocolloids. Read more

A team led by Paul Steen, the Maxwell M. Upson Professor in Engineering, has created a periodic table of droplet motions, inspired in part by parallels between the symmetries of atomic orbitals, which determine elements’ positions on the classic periodic table, and the energies that determine droplet shapes. Read more

The 2019 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education will be awarded to Joseph Le Doux (ChemE '86, MEng '87), Paul Benkeser, and Wendy Newstetter-- all BME Coulter Department faculty. This is the highest (most prestigious) award in engineering education. Read more

For years, scientists have been trying to discover the size at which solid materials could change their internal structure in a single, swift step, like molecules do during isomerization. Read more

The new edition - published by Cambridge University Press in January 2019 - evolved from 20 years of use in EngrI 112: Introduction to Chemical Engineering and EngrD 219: Mass & Energy Balances at Cornell and ChemEng 40: Introduction to Chemical Engineering Design and ChemEng 140: Process Analysis at UC Berkeley. Duncan and Reimer use design as the central theme to introduce students to the course in mass and energy balances. Employers and accreditations increasingly stress the importance of design in the engineering curriculum, and design-driven analysis will motivate students to dig deeply... Read more

The initiative task force is led by Susan McCouch, the Barbara McClintock Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics, and two associate directors - Abe Stroock, the William C. Hooey Director and Gordon L. Dibble ’50 Professor; and Hakim Weatherspoon, associate professor of computer science. The initiative draws faculty from agriculture and life sciences, engineering (including Prof. Fengqi You), computing and information science, and veterinary medicine. They are joined on the task force by six researchers representing electrical and computer engineering, natural resources, the School of... Read more

A new approach developed by Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering, predicts the accuracy of the weather forecast using a machine learning model trained with years’ worth of data on forecasts and actual weather conditions. You combined that predictor with a mathematical model that considers building characteristics including the size and shape of rooms, the construction materials, the location of sensors and the position of windows. Read more

Joseph Brown of the Alabi Group, was recognized again for the paper: “Antibacterial isoamphipathic oligomers highlight the importance of multimeric lipid aggregation for antibacterial potency.” The publication has been selected as one of Nature editors’ picks for their 1 year anniversary collection: https://go.nature.com/2WvYkko Stating, "we chose this paper for the collection because of the high quality of the work, its interdisciplinary nature, and the potential for this study to lead to novel antimicrobial agents." Additional authors include Zeinab Mohammed, Christine M. Artim, Dana N... Read more

Lakshmi Nathan, of the Daniel Group, completed a successful meeting as co-chair of the Gordon Research Seminar in Physical Virology in Ventura, CA last week. Lakshmi spent the last year inviting speakers, deciding on the program, choosing talks and posters, and executing a highly valued meeting. Read more