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Congratulations to our newest @Cornell Alumni! We are so proud of you and can’t wait to see what comes next! #EngineeringToMakeADifference #Cornell2026 🎓❤️

Planting the seeds: Middle and high school students from across New York state spent three days discovering potential career paths during the annual 4-H Career Explorations Conference, held June 30 to July 2 at @Cornell. @CornellCALS @CornellEng news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

Idyllic summer conditions at Cornell right now. Come see it for yourself.

Applications are now open for our 2027 Postdoctoral Fellowships! Join our cohort of early-career scholars committed to discovery that contributes directly to solving the most pressing problems facing our planet. ⏰ Apply by 10/20/26 Please share widely: atkinson.cornell.edu/cornell-atkins…

Autonomous drones could deliver packages, inspect bridges and skyscrapers, monitor emergencies like wildfires, and, eventually, ferry people. But the airspace still lacks the testing and coordination infrastructure needed to prove drones can operate safely around people, buildings, aircraft, and each other. Mehrnaz Sabet, a doctoral student in the field of information science in @Cornell_Bowers, is working to create that infrastructure. Learn how at news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0….

"Cornell-led NIH grant will reveal how immune cells communicate in living tissues." A $13.3M NIH grant unites researchers across @Cornell & at University of Rochester Medicine to reveal how immune cells communicate in living tissues, develop new therapies. news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

A $13.3M grant from the @NIH will support @cornellvet-led efforts to reveal how immune cells communicate within living tissues, which could shape new approaches for treating inflammatory diseases, autoimmune disorders and infections. @CornellEng @UR_Med news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

Cornell adjunct professor Charlie Trautmann and his wife, Nancy, were walking the footbridge that crosses Fall Creek in an area of the Cornell Botanic Gardens known as Flat Rock. Noting how the bridge had fallen into disrepair, Nancy posed an innocent question, “Can’t you do something about this?” That question sparked an idea. Trautmann, Ph.D. ’83 began working with students to hone their engineering skills by designing and building community bridges. Now, through Engineering in the Community (CEE 3090), @CornellEng students gain hands-on experience designing and building infrastructure that benefits local communities, from the Cornell Botanic Gardens to the Village of Interlaken. The course is designed to teach students not only the skills to build infrastructure but also the interpersonal skills needed to succeed in public projects. "So much of our schoolwork happens on paper or on a screen, and actually building something changes how you think about the work," said Julius Pieper '27, president-elect of the Cornell Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Read more: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

Thanks to a new @CEECornell course, adjunct professor Charlie Trautmann helps @Cornell students hone their engineering skills by designing and building a series of community bridges. @CornellEng @CUintheGarden news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

Congratulations to professor Chris Schaffer, elected Cornell’s dean of faculty. Schaffer will begin his three-year term on July 1, representing faculty interests and helping strengthen engagement between Cornell and the broader public. news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

A team of undergraduates from @CornellCALS and @CornellEng beat out 95 other teams to take the grand prize at The Farm Robotics Challenge with their invention: an autonomous robot that kills weeds with electricity. Their robot can travel through a vineyard or orchard without a human operator, zapping weeds with a small amount of electricity, saving labor and energy, and preventing crop loss, without the use of herbicides. Read more: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

Perovskite discovery: @CornellEng researchers have found an obstacle to improving charge transport in hybrid perovskites, a promising class of semiconductor materials used in energy conversion and electronic devices. @ENERGY @cornellccmr @CornellCNF news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

Weed-zapping robot: A team of @Cornell undergrads bested the competition to win the $50K top prize at the Farm Robotics Challenge. Their invention? An autonomous robot that kills weeds with electricity. @CornellCALS @CornellEng news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

“He was not just known for his creative mind, but for his kindness and humanity – a brilliant, yet grounded member of our campus community. We will miss him tremendously.” -- Lynden Archer, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

We are sorry to share the news that Craig Fennie, an associate professor in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics whose groundbreaking research opened new pathways for scientists to discover and design materials, died of a heart attack on June 14, 2026. He was 54.

Açmae El Yacoubi, PhD ’13, a @CornellEng alumna, got her first telescope around age 9. Growing up in Morocco, she was a huge fan of Jean-Pierre Luminet, the famed French astrophysicist and polymath. “Like pretty much any kid, I wanted to be an astronaut, and I was stargazing for as long as I can remember,” El Yacoubi recalls. “I used to play around putting a stick in the ground and tracking how its shadow moved during the day.” El Yacoubi hadn’t been born when humans first went on lunar missions more than a half-century ago. But when they finally returned to the moon’s environs in spring 2026, she had a front-row seat—as a staffer in Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Read more: alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/ar…

Researchers from @CornellEng have developed a new type of computing device that stores information electrically but reads it through tiny mechanical motion, an unusual approach that could open a path toward more energy-efficient hardware for artificial intelligence and scientific computing. The device, described in the journal Nano Letters in April, combines ferroelectric materials with a microscopic vibrating beam, allowing stored analog information to be accessed without relying on conventional electrical readout. It is designed for neuromorphic computing, a brain-inspired approach to information processing, as well as broader analog in-memory computing, where memory and computation are closely integrated. @CornellRsrch Read more: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

Congrats to @FischbachLab postdoctoral researcher Irina Kopyeva on receiving a Weill Cornell Medicine Clinical and Translational Science Center grant to investigate how menopause-related changes in breast tissue may contribute to breast cancer risk. duffield.cornell.edu/kopyeva-awarde…

The critical minerals that power lithium-ion batteries are in high demand and short supply, especially for the U.S., which must rely on importing resources such as nickel and cobalt to manufacture the technology. @CornellEng researchers have now developed a more efficient and cost-effective way to recover almost the full life of these batteries after they are spent. By using an electrochemical solution to regenerate their electrodes, the recycled batteries can regain up to 95% of their original power and last longer when reused, the researchers demonstrated. @AtkinsonCenter Read more: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0….

Once a Cornellian, always a Cornellian 🐻❤️ #CornellReunion

What an incredible Reunion weekend! The Hill was filled with the pride that only Cornellians can bring. Thank you for coming home. Lift the chorus, speed it onward! @CornellAlumni #CornellReunion