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!
More than 500 middle and high school students from across New York gathered at Cornell’s Ithaca campus June 26-28 to participate in workshops taught by Cornell faculty, staff and graduate students during the annual 4-H Career Explorations conference. Read more
Doctoral students in Cornell Engineering’s Commercialization Fellowship are developing tools to compress laser pulses, separate blood plasma and 3D print living tissue. Read more
A cross-campus collaboration led by materials science professor Uli Wiesner results in visual confirmation of 12-sided, nanoscale cage structures, which could have medical diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Read more
Ilana Brito, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. Brito will receive a four-year, $300,000 grant to further her study of the human microbiome. Read more
Dynamic Boundaries, a startup that aims to relieve pain and improve mobility for patients suffering from severe osteoarthritis, joined Cornell’s McGovern Center, a business incubator, June 1. Read more
Congratulations to Meinig School Assistant Professor Ilana Brito, on being named by the Pew Charitable Trusts as one of 22 early-career researchers in the 2018 class of Pew Scholars in the biomedical sciences. The scholars receive four-year grants to advance their explorations of biological mechanisms underpinning human health and disease. Dr. Brito will use her award to look at how the use of antibiotics drives the emergence of multidrug-resistant microbes. The Pew scholars—all of whom have held assistant professor positions for three years or less—enter a vibrant community of researchers who... Read more
A microscopy technique developed in the lab of assistant professor of biomedical engineering Steven Adie could change the way biomedical researchers study the movement of cancer cells, among other applications. Read more
