Here you will find recent and archived news about the Meinig School and our affiliates and partners. For more stories, don't forget to browse our spotlights and annual BME newsletters as well!
Director Marjolein van der Meulen joined prominent researchers across the US & Canada to include the Meinig School as a new institutional partner supporting young researchers at the annual Rising Stars in Engineering in Health Workshop. Read more
Award recognizes orthopaedic research society (ORS) member who has shown exceptional achievement in mentorship and advocacy on behalf of new investigators in orthopaedic research. Read more
For their work inventing heart-assist devices and biomaterials for tissue regeneration, respectively, Cornell Engineering professors James Antaki and Yadong Wang have been elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Read more
A multi-million dollar building project will expand Thurston Hall, providing the Meinig School with new laboratory, teaching and meeting spaces while giving the south end of the Engineering Quad a modern new look. Take a look at the project and see how it will change the dynamics of how engineering faculty and students interact. Read more
A 3D-printed ear transplant called AuriNovo was the Grand Award Winner in the health category of Popular Science's 2022 list of "100 Greatest Innovations in 2022." AuriNovo was created by 3DBio Therapeutics, a startup company co-founded by professor Lawrence Bonassar and Dan Cohen ‘04, M.S. ‘07, Ph.D. ‘10. Read more
A Cornell-led collaboration used machine learning to pinpoint the most accurate means, and timelines, for anticipating the advancement of Alzheimer’s disease in people who are either cognitively normal or experiencing mild cognitive impairment. Read more
A multidisciplinary team of Weill Cornell Medicine researchers has received a five-year $5.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health to fund a center aimed at developing messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines to deter cancer development in at-risk groups. Read more
Undergraduate Ashmitha Sivakumar '24 joined the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab research team over the summer, building valuable relationships with faculty and graduate student mentors. Read more
Doctoral student Andrea Garcia-Ortiz (Lewis Lab) recognized as a new Dean’s Scholar by the Cornell Graduate School. Read more
A Cornell team has developed a way to spatially map the entire spectrum of RNA in a cell’s transcriptome, revealing the role of previously elusive RNA in skeletal muscle regeneration and viral myocarditis in mice. Read more
