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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
Working with Meinig School's Prof. Mert Sabuncu's group, a new Cornell research group — Machine Learning in Medicine — aims to coalesce medicine and artificial intelligence, with the goal of improving methods for disease detection and diagnosis. Read more
James Antaki wins scale-up and prototyping award to develop prototype of a heart-recovery device for infants and young children. Read more
Radical inter-campus, interdisciplinary collaboration reveals new insights into very early events that initiate disease. Read more
Video: new synthetic joint lubricant developed at Cornell could be the future of osteoarthritis relief. Read more
van der Meulen lab students Antoine, Chlebek recognized at world’s largest conference for women in engineering. Read more
Interview with Prof. Chris Schaffer on Alzheimer's research, science policy, and being a professional scientist. Read more
New Cornell-led research has found a strong connection between DNA damage triggered by mutations in proteins that surround the cell nucleus, known as lamins, and muscular dystrophy. Read more
Assistant Prof. Esak (Isaac) Lee featured in Science on developing a biomedical solutions for lymphedema, a painful accumulation of fluid in limbs that afflicts more than 150 million people worldwide. Read more
The annual Research Excellence Awards were presented on Dec. 9 in Willard Straight Hall as part of the Engineering Faculty Holiday Reception. Read more
