"I wanted something that would allow undergraduates to try their own printer, try crazy materials, not worry too much if they blew up the printer," Prof Lipson said. "If they broke it, they could just break a new one, I didn't want something to cost $100,000." Read more
U.S. News ranks engineering science No. 1 in country; Cornell is No. 14 in QS World University rankings Read more
As part of my Biomedical Engineering Immersion term this summer I stared a new project with Dr Linda Vahdat and Dr Maureen Lane at Weill Cornell Medical College. The idea is to use our already established GEDI technology for a … Continue reading → Read more
Students demo their high-level robotics projects from Cornell's Autonomous Systems Lab. Read more
I was recently selected to organize and run a symposium at the ACS Spring 2013 National Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the characterization of algal lipids. This selection is in response to our proposal for the Graduate Student Member … Continue reading → Read more
The Global Polymer Innovation Expo will be held on August 27, 2012, in Columbus, OH. Inventors, John Amend and Hod Lipson will receive the first place award for the "best video". The competition was judged on "the ability to communicate IP to the non-scientific mind and to create a tool to accelerate the commercialization of the products." John Amend, a graduate student, made and submitted the video. Read more
Cornell's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team first place in the 15th International RoboSub Competition, also winning a prize for technical merit. Read more
At approximately 1:30 a.m. on August 6, 2012, more than 200 people viewed the historic landing of the Mobile Science Lab Curiosity on the planet Mars, at Cornell University’s Uris Hall via live feed from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA. Read more
Using theoretical modeling, researchers have uncovered clues to the physical laws that govern how snow avalanches start, grow and move. Read more
