Three students named delegates to Clinton Foundation conference
Saloni Verma ’18, Kiyan Rajabi ’18 and Imani Majied ’19 will be delegates to the Clinton Global Initiatives University conference in Chicago in October. Read more
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Saloni Verma ’18, Kiyan Rajabi ’18 and Imani Majied ’19 will be delegates to the Clinton Global Initiatives University conference in Chicago in October. Read more
Eleven assistant professors from Cornell's Ithaca and New York City campuses have received five-year awards from the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development program. Read more
The lab of Minglin Ma, associate professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will receive up to nearly $7 million from Novo Nordisk for research into a Type 1 diabetes implant device called NEED. Read more
Biomedical engineering (BME) strives to develop new tools to improve human health. At Cornell’s Meinig School, our goal is to understand the human body as an integrated system through quantitative engineering analysis, and then to develop better therapies, devices, and diagnostics. Our focus is to predict how changes at the molecular level relate to the cellular, tissue/organ, and ultimately to whole body level responses. Cornell's M.Eng. Degree in BME focuses on professional practice and engineering design. Our five main areas are: instrumentation & diagnostics, biomedical mechanics... Read more
A multi-campus study of lymphoma shows that certain cell mutations in tumors can cause the cancer to be resistant to chemotherapy, with biophysical forces such as fluid flow playing a key role. Read more
Scientists represented Cornell at the annual USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., April 7-8. Read more
The Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering proudly congratulates Ph.D. students Jason Chang (Andarawis-Puri Lab), Monideepa Chatterjee (Andarawis-Puri Lab), Carolyn Chlebek ( van der Meulen Lab), Joseph Long ( Lammerding Lab), Brittany Schutrum ( Fischbach Lab), Regan Stephenson ( Singh Lab), Tibra Wheeler ( Singh Lab), and Matt Whitman ( Fischbach Lab), as well as one undergraduate senior, Joseph Kim ( Cosgrove Lab), who each recently won a 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP). The NSF GRFP offers 3 years of stipend support during a 5-year fellowship... Read more
Orthofit, the newest member of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, is refining the prototype of its signature product – a “smart” glove. Read more
Cornell will hold the first Annual Cancer Research Symposium to showcase diverse and groundbreaking cancer research on campus, and to better integrate investigators from the Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine. Read more
In March 2018, Fred Dinger III, '83 joined faculty to dedicate a room in the newly renovated BME Administrative Suite. Fred made this gift in honor of his time at Cornell Engineering and his son's, Brent Dinger '15, M.Eng. '16. Mr. Dinger is CEO and President, Aerin Medical, Inc., an active member of the Meinig School's Advisory Council and a frequent speaker on biomedical devices. Read more