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Each year, Popular Science embarks on a nationwide search to find its ‘Brilliant 10,’ a roster of 10 early-career scientists and engineers developing ingenious approaches to solving the world’s grand challenges. This year’s Brilliant 10 includes Samitha Samaranayake, an assistant professor in Cornell’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering who works on mathematical modeling and algorithm design for large-scale transportation systems. Popular Science’s 2022 list of “the top up-and-coming minds in science” was published Oct. 19, and cites Samaranayake’s work to design algorithms to help... Read more

A new Cornell research project aims to gain a better understanding of how populations of microbes interact on surface environments, such as human skin, where their dynamics are not fully understood. Read more

Passionate, committed, encouraging, approachable, incredible – these are just a few of the adjectives used to describe faculty members receiving teaching and advising awards at the 2022 Cornell Engineering Fall Faculty Reception hosted Sept. 22 in the Statler Ballroom. College Teaching Awards The College Teaching Awards recognize outstanding instructors across many dimensions including lecturing; developing novel curriculum, implementing teaching innovations, or novel pedagogy; exceptional mentoring of students; enhancements of instructional laboratories; mentoring of other faculty, or other... Read more

Patrick Reed, Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering, was elected as an American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Fellow. He joined 53 other individuals in the 2022 Class of Fellows. Since 1962, the AGU Union Fellows Committee has selected less than 0.1% of members as new Fellows. AGU notes that Fellows are selected because they have made outstanding achievements and contributions by pushing forward the frontiers of our science. Fellows embody AGU’s vision of a thriving, sustainable, and equitable future powered by discovery, innovation, and action. “I am very humbled to join the 2022 class of AGU... Read more

A team led by Greeshma Gadikota from the College of Engineering was named a finalist for a national prize to domestically extract lithium – an essential ingredient for a greening world. Read more

Professor emeritus Thomas O’Rourke was honored July 14 with the inaugural Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy Award for his research, teaching, and consulting services to more than 140 projects in 13 countries. Read more

The Autonomy and Mobility in Engineered and Natural Environments Workshop at Cornell Tech highlighted research from the smart cities and urban technology academic communities in Ithaca, NYC and beyond. Read more

Dr. Greeshma Gadikota, Assistant Professor and Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow, in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell, has been awarded the prestigious NSF Early CAREER award for her project titled, "Confinement Induced Structural Evolution of Calcium- and Magnesium- Carbonates in Architected Siliceous Nanochannels." Gadikota said, "Removing CO2 emissions at the scale of several gigatons from air and permanently storing these emissions is essential for a sustainable climate. CO2 storage as solid carbonates in earth abundant porous silica-rich geologic environments is a... Read more

The Bovay Civil Infrastructure Laboratory Complex has a new tenant: a roughly 6,000-pound industrial robot capable of 3D printing large-scale structures that could make construction more sustainable. Read more

Declaring this the “decisive decade” for climate action, Cornell launched The 2030 Project: A Climate Initiative, which will mobilize world-class faculty to develop and accelerate tangible solutions to the climate challenge. Read more