Cornell’s Steel Bridge Team excelled in the 2024 AISC competition with a 216-pound bridge that supported 2,500 pounds, placing first in lightness. Key to their success was access to the LASSP Student Machine Shop, where expert support and flexible hours enabled fast, high-quality fabrication and extra time for testing and refinement.
The Graduate School welcomed 50 new Dean’s Scholars. The program honors students for their commitment to academic excellence and advancing diversity, access, equity, inclusion and belonging.
In this episode of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, cohosts Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel unpack the term “allyship” with Sam Benson, Assistant Director for Graduate Affairs for MS and PhD Students in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Perdita Das, Assistant Dean of Hans Bethe House.
Sydney Womack won Cornell’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. 3MT challenges graduate students to present their thesis research compellingly to general audiences in just three minutes.
The Cornell Engineering Office of Inclusive Excellence recognized outstanding undergraduate and graduate students, student organizations, faculty and staff at their Annual Awards Banquet on April 28.
The conference, held in in Lahore, Pakistan, featured more than thirty guest scholars, curators, artists, and other practitioners and twenty-seven emerging scholars
New ILR School research shows that one way to be assertive when bargaining while reducing the chance of a no-deal outcome is to “soften” your speech with linguistic hedges, to speak “politely.”
Dr. Daniel R. Alonso, dean emeritus of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and professor emeritus of pathology and laboratory medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, died July 31 in Norfolk, Va., at age 88.