Expanded Kessler Fellows program welcomes new cohort

The College of Engineering’s Kessler Fellows program is now open to all junior STEM majors and is under new leadership.

Quadrupling turbines, U.S. can meet 2030 wind-energy goals

The United States could generate 20% of its electricity via wind energy within 10 years according to new Cornell research.

Smith ’85 to receive engineering college alumni honor

Robert F. Smith ’85, founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, will be honored with Cornell Engineering’s 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award. It will be presented at a ceremony April 24 in Statler Hall Auditorium.

Cornell scientists amplify ‘green’ research at AAAS

On topics ranging from oceanic disease to restraining invasive species from distant seas, Cornell faculty joined 10,000 scientists to discuss “Envisioning Tomorrow’s Earth” at the AAAS meeting in Seattle.

Top ag schools joining forces at Cornell digital ag hackathon

Students and faculty from the world’s five leading agricultural universities, including Cornell, will spend three days learning and brainstorming at the Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture’s second annual hackathon, Feb. 28-March 1.

Solid-modeling pioneer Herb Voelcker dies at 90

Herb Voelcker, professor emeritus of engineering and a pioneer in solid modeling, the technology that enabled early computer-aided design, died Jan. 23 in Ithaca. He was 90.

Program empowers aspiring black entrepreneurs

Black Entrepreneurs in Training, now in its second year, aims to increase entrepreneurship among students of color at Cornell, and generate a visible group of black alumni who’ve founded successful companies.

Davis, Delimitrou, DiStasio win Sloan fellowships

Assistant professors Damek Davis, Christina Delimitrou and Robert A. DiStasio Jr. have won 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Global startup summit taps Zymtronix as challenge finalist

Startup Zymtronix – an industrial biotech company housed in Cornell’s McGovern Center – has been selected as a challenge finalist at the Hello Tomorrow 2020 global summit, March 11-13 in Paris.