Nearly 200 Cornell Duffield Engineering students exhibited handheld scrapers for insect egg masses, automated vineyard net-lifting systems, and even early-stage mechanical sorters designed to separate invasive spotted lanternflies from harvested grapes.
Thirty student startups received Human Spirit, Beck Fellows and Cane Entrepreneurial Scholars awards this summer from Entrepreneurship at Cornell, funding that will allow students to work on their startups rather than take traditional summer positions.
Ten doctoral candidates were inducted into the Cornell Chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and service in doctoral education.
For the latest advance in sustainability on Cornell’s campus, look to the new heat recovery systems atop Olin Hall, Duffield Hall and the Biotechnology Building.
The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Environmental Defense Fund will distribute $1.24 million to 12 projects co-led by Cornell and EDF scientists for research addressing several sustainability topics.
Black Student Empowerment, in the Centers for Student Equity, Empowerment and Belonging, has received the annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony.
Cornell researchers at the Willsboro Research Farm are helping northern New York farmers extend their short growing season through the use of high tunnels.
