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!
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
Prof. Iwijn De Vlaminck a contributing author on cross-campus collaborative study that suggests new treatments for UTIs may be found in strategies that alter the balance of gut bacteria. 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
Learn about James Antaki's winning project: Heart-Recovery Device for Infants and Young Children. Read more
Brito Lab postdoc Ana Maria Porras highlighted in Forbes on International Day Of Women And Girls In Science Read more
Shaoyi Jiang, Ph.D. ’93, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Washington, has been named the first Robert S. Langer ’70 Family and Friends Professor at Cornell. Jiang will join the Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering in July, in a professorship honoring one of the university’s most notable engineering alumni. Read more
