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Students help Ithaca building owners see progress on emissions
Since 2016, students have worked to calculate and share the progress of the Ithaca 2030 District, an initiative to reduce the carbon footprint of Ithaca’s commercial buildings. Read more
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Merrill Scholars honor mentors who inspired them
At a luncheon on May 21, 42 Merrill Scholars celebrated the mentors who had the greatest influence on their early education and the Cornell faculty or staff members who contributed most significantly to their college experience. Read more
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Nair recieves 2024 American Concrete Institute, Walter P. Moore Jr. Faculty Achievement Award
At the 2024 American Concrete Institute convention, Sriramya Duddukuri Nair was the recipient of the 2024 American Concrete Institute, Walter P. Moore Jr. Faculty Achievement Award "in recognition of her work at the forefront of concrete education, where her inclusion of innovative topics and technology allows the next generation of students to engage with tools that are revolutionizing civil engineering.” The Walter P. Moore, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award recognizes new faculty members for excellence and innovation in the teaching of concrete design, materials, or construction. The award... Read more
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China’s bid to decarbonize may have hidden costs
A new paper attempts to quantify how decarbonizing the China Southern Power Grid, which provides electricity to more than 300 million people, will negatively impact river basins and will reduce the amount of cropland in China. Read more
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‘You the Engineer’ climate change course opens to Title 1 schools
Hundreds of high school students from the across the country have been challenged to design a sustainable house for college credit as part of the Cornell course Climate Change and You, the Engineer. Read more
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Excellence ascending: Engineering's women leadership at historic high
For the first time in Cornell Engineering’s history, every school and department currently has, or will soon have, a woman faculty member on the college’s executive leadership team. The milestone comes as the college celebrates the 140th anniversary of its first woman engineer. Read more
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Low-cost microbe can speed biological discovery
To conduct low-cost and scalable synthetic biological experiments, Cornell researchers have created a new version of a microbe to compete economically with E. coli – a bacteria used to synthesize proteins. Read more
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IEEE CSS Magazine features Malikopoulos, mechanism design theory
Readers can get acquainted with one of Cornell’s newest engineering faculty members and his insights into mechanism design theory in the February issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine. The latest issue features a profile on Andreas A. Malikopoulos, professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and includes a review paper on mechanism design theory coauthored by Malikopoulos. In the magazine’s “ People in Control” section, Malikopoulos details his career path from General Motors and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Cornell Engineering and the origins of his Information and... Read more
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Researchers win grants to remove carbon from air, manufacturing
Cornell Atkinson faculty fellows Greeshma Gadikota and Phillip Milner have won Carbontech Development Initiative grants to develop carbon removal technologies. Read more