New course examines engineering challenges, opportunities in women’s health

A new Duffield Engineering biomedical engineering course will challenge students to investigate real-world failures in women’s health technologies and identify opportunities for better design.

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Alums launch company to streamline cash flow processes

The newest podcast from Entrepreneurship at Cornell features the founders of Tabs.

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Matt Marx named vice provost for entrepreneurship, innovation and external engagement

Marx will establish and serve as inaugural director of the Cornell Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, to boost university efforts to commercialize breakthrough scientific discoveries.

Cornell-led NIH grant will reveal how immune cells communicate in living tissues

A $13.3 million grant from the NIH will support efforts to reveal how immune cells communicate within living tissues, which could shape new approaches for treating inflammatory diseases, autoimmune disorders and infections.

Doctoral grad wins Ivy+ Three Minute Thesis competition

Cornell 2026 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) winner Ellen van Wijngaarden, Ph.D. '26, won first place in the Ivy+ 3MT, where she competed against students representing eight peer institutions.

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Researchers achieve the ‘impossible’ low-loss, tunable dielectric

A late-night “Eureka” moment, a smashed computer and 17 years of persistence led researchers to achieve what many in microwave electronics had long considered out of reach: a tunable, low energy loss class of dielectric materials.

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Duffield Engineering SPROUT Awards for emerging research reach new high

The 16 grants are the most the SPROUT program has awarded in a single cycle and support a broad range of promising projects in AI, medicine, semiconductors, sustainability and more.

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Student-built bridges connect communities thanks to engineering course

Thanks to a new civil and environmental engineering course, adjunct professor Charlie Trautmann helps students hone their engineering skills by designing and building a series of community bridges.

Nanoparticles sneak antibodies into cells to inhibit cancer, inflammation

A delivery system that uses lipid nanoparticles to sneak proteins into cells can accomplish the same feat with smuggling therapeutic antibodies, new research has found.