Nine BME graduate students pinned Dean's Scholars at annual event
Congratulations to the following Meinig School students on being pinned Dean's Scholars at the 2020 event: Read more
News: BME
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!
How Cornell Adopts a Multidisciplinary Approach In Tackling Breast Cancer
Cornell Daily Sun article on current breast cancer research features Prof. Claudia Fischbach on how interdisciplinary scientific research is paving the way for better testing and treatments. Read more
Intercampus team to develop post-transplant UTI diagnosis
An intercampus research team has been awarded a five-year, $3.65 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a quick, inexpensive method for accurately diagnosing urinary tract infections in kidney transplant patients. Read more
NSF grant to fund research into ‘microcleaners’ for waterways
A $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund research, led by Nicholas Abbott from the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, into “microcleaners” for waterways. Read more
Metal-ion breakthrough leads to new biomaterials
Cornell engineers have developed a new framework that makes the design of stretchy elastomers a modular process, allowing for the mixing and matching of different metals with a single polymer. Read more
$1.5M gift launches Collins Fellowship supporting diversity
Cornell Engineering has established the Lance R. Collins Fellowship, created to support engineering graduate students from traditionally unrepresented populations, as well as honor its former dean of 10 years. Read more
Bringing Mechanical Engineering to Biology; The Story of Cornell BME’s Newest Professor
Learn more about Prof. Karl Lewis, and assistant professor who started at the Meinig School in July, in this Cornell Daily Sun article. Read more
Teaming Up—Coronavirus Research at Cornell
Cornell Research article features Meinig School Prof. David Putnam's (with Ph.D. student Mariela Rivera de Jesus) work adapting their lab's flu vaccine technology to address COVID-19 . Read more
Mobile phone-based saliva test wins NIH prize
Cornell researchers’ concept for a mobile phone-based system to detect infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies in saliva was awarded a $100,000 NIH Technology Accelerator Challenge prize. Read more
‘Adaptive testing’ quickly IDs infections within social circles
The aggressive approach, which supplements other campus efforts to slow the virus’s spread, expands testing to those who may not meet the definition of a close contact. Read more