Led by Lauren Stulgis, the Engaged Engineering initiative announced its first grants, backing projects that use engineering to serve communities through environmental monitoring, AI and data analytics, and mechanical design.
Cornell Atkinson has awarded $900k to support six new research projects that seek to protect coral reefs, improve greenhouse agriculture and understand whether wildfires affect disease spread.
Kanvas Biosciences announced a $48 million Series A funding round, which will support a clinical trial later this year for the company’s lead cancer immunotherapy treatment.
Kapil Gangwar will participate as a Young Scientist in the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, bringing together Nobel laureates and promising early-career researchers from around the world.
The group of 50 scholars will talk about how to build an undergraduate educational experience that crosses both disciplinary boundaries and institutional lines.
Cornell researchers have developed a new way to create moiré patterns – atomic-scale structures that can give materials unusual quantum behaviors – without relying on the twisting and stacking methods traditionally used.
Researchers identified very different mechanisms behind two historic eruptions of Mount Etna in Italy – a finding that can help geologists assess the risk of future eruptions.
