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Cornell Engineering ranks #14 among engineering colleges in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings released on March 12, 2019. Cornell also ranked highly in 11 specialty rankings: #12 Aerospace Engineering #03 Biological/Agricultural Engineering #14 Biomedical Engineering #18 Chemical Engineering #11 Civil Engineering #09 Computer Engineering #09 Electrical Engineering #10 Environmental Engineering #09 Industrial/Systems Engineering #08 Materials Engineering #08 Mechanical Engineering Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted...

Richard Cerione, the Goldwin Smith Professor of pharmacology and chemical biology, and Claudia Fischbach, professor of biomedical engineering, discuss their collaborative research on cancer biology – the metabolic changes required for cancer development and cancer cells' interactions with other cells.

Prof. Jonathan Butcher’s lab will improve precision in biological diagnostic or therapeutic strategies for aortic valve disease.

The third annual NYC Health Hackathon, hosted Feb. 8-10 by Weill Cornell Medicine, brought teams together in an attempt to solve myriad medical challenges.

Nature careers feature highlights Meinig School alumna Liz Wayne.

Working in the Meinig School's Lammerding Lab, Cornell undergrad Connor McGuigan conducts research investigating the relationship between a cell’s ability to repair DNA, its deformability and how those two characteristics contribute to cancer.

Prof. David A. Putnam is determining how engaging the innate immune system can help guide the adaptive immune system to create pathogen-matched and protective immune responses against both viral and bacterial pathogens.

Collaboration between Cornell Medicine’s Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) and Entrepreneurship at Cornell brought together nearly 200 students and faculty members from Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell’s Ithaca campus, and several local and national academic institutions, to develop high-tech healthcare innovations.

Research on blood flow in the brain, from the lab of Chris Schaffer and Nozomi Nishimura, could help inform better therapies for people with dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

Building on Cornell’s decades of fundamental and comparative research in the immunological sciences, Provost Michael Kotlikoff has announced the creation of a new Cornell Center for Immunology.