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Kress-Gazit, who has been on the faculty at Cornell Engineering since 2009, works to create verifiable robot controllers for complex high-level tasks using logic, verification, synthesis, hybrid systems theory and computational linguistics. She received an NSF CAREER award in 2010, a DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2012 and the Fiona Ip Li '78 and Donald Li '75 Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013. Kress-Gazit is currently also President of the Board of the Robotics: Science and Systems Foundation. Women in Robotics is a 2000+ member group with 16 chapters around the world. Their mission is to... Read more

A research team from Cornell’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences has received a $1.4 million grant from NASA to lead a study of how volcanic ash from past eruptions affected the Earth. Read more

Professor Max Zhang's project to design a statewide internet of things network was featured on Smart Cities Dive. The project aims to close NY's digital divide by broadening internet access and advancing residents' trust in new technologies. Read more

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

Veronica Morales is currently an assistant professor at the University of California Davis in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Morales received her MSc in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from Cornell in 2007, and her Ph.D. in Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell in 2011. Read more

Researchers led by Nicholas Abbott, a Tisch University Professor in the Robert F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, created a way of using synthetic liquid crystals to squeeze red blood cells and gain new insight into individual cells’ mechanical properties. Read more

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

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

The Braudy Foundation – founded by Bob Braudy ’65, M.Eng. ’66, and his wife, Judi – has committed to funding a second five-year phase of a research collaboration between Cornell and Northern Arizona University. Read more

Both graduate fields in Cornell’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences have announced that they will be dropping the requirement for the general GRE test. This impacts the fields of Atmospheric Sciences and Geological Sciences. The change in admission process will be effective for the fall 2021 application cycle for all graduate and professional degree programs in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. During 2020, faculty began a new holistic review of applicants to the MS and Ph.D. programs. “In the first round of review, we hid the GRE scores but evaluated the candidates using all of the... Read more