Spotlights
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Community Member of the Month: Zhu Cheng of the Paszek Lab
“I’m proud of CORNELL CHEME’s welcoming and inclusive environment.” Zhu was born and raised in Suzhou, China. Growing up, she would listen to her dad talk about his work at a chemical company. This... Read more
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Geoffrey Rouin, M.Eng. '19
"BME allows you to have a broad variety of experience and leverage that interdisciplinary experience in solving problems that face the field of medicine." Read more
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Alyssa Bryan, M.Eng. '19
"[Cornell is] an environment [focusing] on collaborative work that also encourages individual growth and development." Read more
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Haley Antoine, B.S. '19
"I was impressed with all the female students I saw/met, which really drew me in!" Read more
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New Materials from the Atomic Scale Up
by Jackie Swift Nothing about Craig J. Fennie, Applied and Engineering Physics, is predictable or routine. “I stumble into things,” he says with a rueful smile. “There’s never a plan.” Yet Fennie’s... Read more
Spring 2019 Hooey Award winners: Lakshmi Nathan and Paul Carlson
The Austin Hooey Graduate Research Excellence Recognition Award is the highest award given to a graduate student. It recognizes outstanding contributions to scholarship and research toward a Ph.D. and... Read more
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Pamela Badian-Pessot Ph.D. '20
Pamela Badian-Pessot’s parents met while they were earning graduate degrees at Stanford University. It may be because of this that Badian-Pessot thought of graduate school the way many people think of... Read more
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Irwin Jacobs '54 BEE '56 awarded Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award
Irwin Jacobs receives Distinguished Alumni Award Engineer, entrepreneur, innovator and philanthropist Irwin Jacobs '54, BEE ’56, was presented with the Cornell Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award... Read more
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Arna Pálsdóttir: Value from Waste
Coming from Iceland, Arna made her way to the US to work on science useful for geothermal operations back home. Here she developed a new method to extract lithium out of geothermal wastewater. We’ll... Read more