News: BME

From classroom to product development in one semester, biomechanics course connects students with real-word projects. Read more

A collaboration led by Lawrence Bonassar developed a two-step technique to repair herniated discs so they maintain mechanical function and won’t collapse or deteriorate. Read more

Cornell Giving Day is Thursday, March 12. Find an area of Cornell you care about and support our great university in a Big Red way! Read more

A Cornell research team led by Ben Cosgrove used a new cellular profiling technology to probe and catalog in a “muscle regeneration atlas,” the activity of almost every possible kind of stem cell involved in muscle repair. Read more

The award letter states that Cornell Engineering has demonstrated a commitment to: Establishing baseline support for groups underrepresented in engineering; Quantifiably analyzing and assessing unit composition, policies, culture, and climate related to all groups underrepresented in engineering; Implementing programs and initiatives that strengthen the K-12 or community college pipeline thereby reducing significant barriers related to long-term growth; and Developing an action plan focused on continuous improvement. The ASEE Diversity Recognition Program was established in 2018 to publicly... Read more

In a mutual exchange program, students from Cornell's Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering and Arusha Technical College in Tanzania combine their skills and knowledge to fix broken medical equipment and collaborate on senior design capstone projects. Read more

Over winter break, the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering (BME), partnered with the Engineering Career Center, Engineering Alumni Affairs & Development, and M.Eng. Career Support to coordinate staff and student treks to both Boston and San Francisco for those interested in the biomedical engineering industry. Each trek consisted of multiple onsite employer visits wherein students were given tours as well as learned more the companies and opportunities through interactive panel discussions, presentations, and demonstrations. Additionally, there was an alumni networking event held in Boston... Read more

Alum Andrea Ippolito, program director of Women Entrepreneurs Cornell (W.E. Cornell) and a lecturer of engineering management at Cornell University, spoke at the Women Innovators and Entrepreneurs: W.E. Cornell Ideation Workshop sponsored by the Binghamton University Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Partnerships, the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator and W.E. Cornell in February. Read more

Pulling together techniques and insights that span multiple scientific fields and academic departments, researchers from Cornell Engineering and Weill Cornell Medicine are taking an expansive look at cancer that goes beyond tumors and individual cells. Read more

Brito Lab postdoc Ana Maria Porras highlighted in Forbes on International Day Of Women And Girls In Science Read more