Professor April Gu was selected by the Water Environment Federation as the 2019 recipient of the prestigious Ralph Fuhrman Medal for Outstanding Water Quality Academic-Practice Collaboration in connection. Gu shares this award with her colleagues, Charles Bott, James Barnard, Peter Schauer, Andrew Shaw, Imre Takacs and Paul Dombrowski. The research paper associated with this award is titled, "The Investigation of the Mechanisms for Optimization and Design of a Side-Stream EBPR Process as a Sustainable Approach for Achieving Stable and Efficient Phosphorus Removal." WER writes, "this pioneering research has significantly advanced knowledge and understanding and that could fundamentally change how water profession design and implement effective phosphorus removal technologies. The outcome will help transforming our understanding and ability to protect and preserve water resources in a sustainable and cost effective manner and to minimize impact on health and the environment."
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 about ‘You the Engineer’ climate change course opens to Title 1 schools
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... Read more about Excellence ascending: Engineering's women leadership at historic high
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... Read more about Low-cost microbe can speed biological discovery
