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A promising alternative to seabed mining? Seawater

July 10, 2024

As the International Seabed Authority meets in Jamaica this month, Maha Haji, professor of engineering, comments on a promising alternative to seabed mining.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Engineering

AI modeling delivers more benefits, less risk for water partnerships

Researchers found that cooperative partnerships seeking to spread the cost burden of water infrastructure projects often end up forcing local partners to bear the brunt of supply and financial risks.

Computing & Information Sciences
Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Physical Sciences & Engineering

STEP expands local high school students’ horizons

Since 1986, STEP has been addressing the underrepresentation of marginalized students in science, technology, engineering and math through programs at more than 50 universities across New York.

Computing & Information Sciences
Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine
Physical Sciences & Engineering
NYS Impact
Diversity
Public Engagement

Hybrid system would create new ‘backbone’ for internet in space

A new NATO-funded effort led by assistant professor Greg Falco ’10 seeks to make the internet less vulnerable to disruption by rerouting its flow of information to space.

Global Reach
Physical Sciences & Engineering

Zhang named provost’s fellow for public engagement

Max Zhang, the Irving Porter Church Professor in Cornell Engineering’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been appointed the provost’s fellow for public engagement. 

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Physical Sciences & Engineering
NYS Impact
News & Events
Public Engagement

Microscale kirigami robot folds into 3D shapes and crawls

Researchers created a robot less than 1 millimeter in size that is printed as a 2D hexagonal “metasheet” but, with a jolt of electricity, morphs into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawls.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Spontaneous supercrystal discovered in switching metal-insulator

A supercrystal formation previously unobserved in the thin-film Mott insulator Ca2RuO4 was discovered by a Cornell-led research team, potentially unlocking new ways to engineer materials and devices with tunable electronic properties.

Physical Sciences & Engineering
Around Cornell

University celebrates top faculty for outstanding teaching, mentoring

Eleven teaching faculty from across the university have been awarded Cornell’s highest honors for graduate and undergraduate teaching, Interim President Michael I. Kotlikoff announced Oct. 22.

Arts & Humanities
Health, Nutrition & Medicine
Law, Government & Public Policy
Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine
Physical Sciences & Engineering
News & Events
Diversity

Cornell experts to offer solutions at Climate Week NYC

Climate Week NYC will get a Big Red tint as Cornell researchers suggest carbon solutions for the travel industry, discuss agricultural methane and participate in a nuclear energy conference.

Architecture & Design
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Food & Agriculture
Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Health, Nutrition & Medicine
Law, Government & Public Policy
Physical Sciences & Engineering
NYS Impact
News & Events
New York City

Lai receives Brouwer Career Award in astronomy

The award recognizes Dong Lai’s “formidable and broad contributions to astrophysical dynamics, his outstanding mentoring record, and his wide-ranging professional service activities.”

Physical Sciences & Engineering
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