Max Zhang, the Irving Porter Church Professor in Cornell Engineering’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been appointed the provost’s fellow for public engagement.
Through engaging research projects, technical lecture series, and hands-on learning, thirty students from institutions across the United States and Puerto Rico are taking their studies to the next level of research excellence.
As the U.S. faces significant challenges in scaling up production of hydrogen in cost-effective and environmentally friendly ways, a new Cornell study outlines strategies to meet up to 75% of the nation’s future hydrogen demand by harnessing offshore wind energy.
Colorado State University has joined the NSF-funded Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS), led by Cornell University, with Arjun Khakhar spearheading projects on plant genome editing and enhancing nitrogen and water use in crops.
The program in the College of Arts & Sciences provides undergraduate students with summer opportunities to conduct research with and be mentored by faculty from across the college.
Over 10 weeks, 22 teams of would-be entrepreneurs developed products ranging from multilingual children's toys to innovative greenhouse hoops for small-scale farmers.
Cornell and global researchers are finding ways to control disease-carrying aquatic plants in Senegal by turning the flora into inexpensive compost or livestock feed – and helping the economy.
A Cornell team used a new form of high-resolution optical imaging to better understand how adsorption – i.e., the clinging of molecules to surfaces – works on the semiconductor titanium dioxide with a gold particle added as a co-catalyst.
Households in Cambodia caught and consumed a far more diverse array of fish than they sold at market, highlighting how biodiversity loss might affect people’s nutrition, especially for those with lower incomes.
Quagga mussels – the deleterious invasive species from Eastern Europe seen throughout Oneida Lake – may provide an unexpected benefit for the life cycle of mayflies: They’re flourishing.
Alistair Hayden brings his West Coast experience in wildfires and earthquakes to help New York communities maintain health and become more disaster resilient in the face of climate change.
To help local emergency managers assess danger, Cornell researchers have created the Mortality Estimation Tool to map predicted, smoke-attributed mortality statistics in near-real time.
