Engineer and entrepreneur David A. Duffield ’62, MBA ’64, will be given the inaugural Cornell Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award Tuesday, Sept. 4.
Shaoyi Jiang, Ph.D. ’93, has been named the first Robert S. Langer ’70 Family and Friends Professor at Cornell. Jiang’s wife, Qiuming Yu, Ph.D. ’95, also will join the Cornell faculty.
Lance Collins, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering, will join Virginia Tech as the inaugural vice president and executive director of its new Innovation Campus, following completion of his second term as dean June 30.
Don Banfield, a senior research associate specializing in planetary sciences at Cornell University and member of the science team for NASA’s InSight Mars lander, comments on InSight's mission on the red planet.
Chemistry professor Hector Abruña and plant geneticist Susan McCouch have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, which recognizes distinguished achievement in original research.
New York City residents are four times more likely to choose a store where shoppers respect 6 feet of distancing than one where no one is social distancing, according to a Cornell experiment using 3D simulation.
A $10 million gift from the Fleming family will establish the Samuel C. Fleming Molecular Engineering Laboratories, a new state-of-the-art lab spanning the entire north wing of Olin Hall.
Cornell has secured a U.S. Department of Energy grant, expected to total about $7.2 million, which will fund exploratory research to help verify the feasibility of using a novel geothermal energy system to heat its campus buildings.
