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Mobile phone-based saliva test wins NIH prize

By: Matt Hayes

A team of researchers including David Erickson, the SC Thomas Sze Director in the Sibley School, designed a quick, non-invasive, mobile phone-based system to detect infectious diseases, inflammation and nutritional deficiencies that was awarded a $100,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Tech Accelerator Challenge prize. Read more

Silvia Ferrari

Silvia Ferrari was elected a fellow of AIAA

Silvia Ferrari, John Brancaccio Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was elected an Associate Fellow for the Class of 2021 in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)! Ferrari was recently inducted into the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Read more about her r esearch and accomplishments . Read more

Keith LeGrand

Sibley Ph.D. won the FUSION Best Student Paper Award

Keith LeGrand, Ph.D. student working in Professor Silvia Ferrari's group, was awarded the Fusion 2020 Best Paper Award for his paper on exploiting bounded sensor field-of-view geometry in tracking and sensor planning problems! LeGrand was awarded a cash prize and a travel award to present the paper at Fusion 2021 in South Africa. Read more

Jennifer Bustillos

Jennifer Bustillos, Ph.D. student in the Sibley School, was selected for the Knight@KIC Fellowship

Jennifer Bustillos, a Ph.D. student working with Assistant Professor Atieh Moridi in the Lab for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, was recently selected to receive the 2020-2021 Knight@KIC Engineering Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship is funded by the Kavali Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science. Bustillos’ research sits at the interface of materials science and mechanics of advanced manufactured metals. Her research will combine high resolution TEM and nanobeam electron diffraction techniques to enable the identification of crucial deformations/defect interactions in engineered... Read more

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Cornell Atkinson awards $1.1M to innovative projects

By: Blaine Friedlander

Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability awarded a grant for an interdisciplinary project that will develop, monitor and model mitigation strategies for medical facilities to protect health care workers from COVID-19 in NYC. The project is led by Max Zhang and researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, The Baker Institute for Animal Health & Cornell University School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Read more