Welcome to the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. Cornell is one of the Ivy League schools and also the Land Grant University of the State of New York. The Biological and Environmental Engineering Department (BEE) is one of the largest of its kind in the country with a very diverse faculty, staff and student population. The department serves three integrated functions: teaching of undergraduate and graduate students; research on problems in agriculture, biology and the environment; and public outreach to help society implement new knowledge. Read more ...
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PROSPECTIVE GRADUATE STUDENTS:
While the BEE graduate field has a rolling admission policy, the following dates are important:
October 1st: submission deadline for M.S./Ph.D. students for spring admission
January 5th: submission deadline for M.S. /Ph.D. students for fall admission (most fellowship/stipend decisions will be made for students applying by this deadline).
Click here for GRADUATE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
The 4th Annual BEE Research Symposium will be held March 2nd, 2012
2011 Program (2012 Program and Abstract Book will be available mid-February)
2011 Abstract Book
[Contact: akp28@cornell.edu]
Professor John March listens as Graduate Student Brian Buchanan explains his research on the hydrologic impact of roadside ditch networks at the 2011 Symposium.
SAVE THE DATE: MAY 14 & 15, 2012 for the Cornell University Symposium Honoring Wilfried Brutsaert and Jean-Yves Parlange. Click here for details.
NA-ISMET Meeting: October 9-10, 2012
North American International Society for Microbial Electrochemical Technologies Meeting. Details.
Food and Bioprocessing Engineering
Click here to see the FORA.tv interview with Professor Larry Walker discussing how and why his Biofuels Research Lab makes ethanol out of switchgrass.Click here to take a virtual tour of the Biofuels Research Lab.
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GRADUATION 2011 PICTURES. Congratulations!
STUDENT PROFILES [pre-2011]
IBE Student Chapter Website
Thank you to the 2011 BioExpo crew: Hans Chung, Revanth Baddam, Yamuna Navada, Shailly Prasad, Anne Elise Creamer, and Austin Merboth.
and congratulations to the 2011 poster award winners:
1st Place Zuckerman prize: Brian Kwee
2nd Place: Kathy Chou
3rd Place: Alyssa Henning
Alpha Epsilon Student Chapter Blog
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Jessica Bloom, EnvE'11, has received an honorable mention from the Morris K. Udall Scholarship Foundation. More
Ben Cammarata, BE'11, (pictured, far right) is a member of the iGEM team and featured in the Spring '10 Cornell Engineering Magazine article, Living Machines: Genetically engineering solutions to win. More.
Chunhin (Sam) Chan, BE'11, has been doing research under the tutelage of Professor Bonassar (BME) and was selected for a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at Harvard University. More.
Matt Giambrone, BE'11, is a founding member of the Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity at Cornell. He has also held numerous leadership positions in Cornell's Delta Phi Fraternity. More.
Alyssa Henning, BE'11, is featured in the cover article for the Spring '10 Cornell Engineering Magazine article, Living Machines: Genetically engineering solutions to win. See more in her College of Engineering Student Profile. More
Alexander Kopache, BE'11, lead the drivetrain team for the Cornell Baja Racing Team which took first place at the national competition in Rochester in June 2010. Cornell Chronicle Story More
Bianca Lane, BE'11, is a member of the Army ROTC. This allowed her to serve as a "leader, strategist, motivator and counselor" in her cadet battalion. More.
Matthew Mikhail, BE'11, co-founded an organization "What's in a Doctor's Bag" geared towards relieving the anxiety elementary school children commonly feel towards doctors' visits. The group visits elementary school classes, performs skits, and engages the students in activities designed to familiarize them with the unnecessarily frightening aspects of health care. More.
Francine Mitto, BE'11, is the President of the Cornell Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers. More.
Christine Pitner, BE'11, has won a 2010 Diversity Programs in Engineering (DPE) Undergraduate of the Year distinction. More.
Shailly Prasad, BE'11, is co-president of the Cornell Chapter of the Institute of Biological Engineers. She has worked for three years as a researcher in Cornell's BME Department. More.
Allison Truhlar, BE'11, serves as Philanthropy Chair for the Tau Beta Pi Honor Society, as Tutoring Chair for the No-Nun-De-Kah Honor Society and has been inducted into the Alpha Epsilon Honor Society. She is currently working on a research project for her honors thesis with funding awarded through the Dextra Undergraduate Research Endowment Fund. More.Complete Career Services Survey Data
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Biosensor may improve disease detection, water monitoring. Professor Dan Luo and his graduate student Songming Peng collaborated on this project with Professor Amit Lal, ECE.
Professor Dan Luo was a plenary speaker at the Second Nano Today Conference in Waikoloa, Hawaii, Dec 8, 2011. His talk was entitled "Engineering DNA as Both Genetic and Generic Materials".
Graduate Student Janet Barclay, who works in Professor Todd Walter's
research group, has been chosen as a 2012 IGERT fellow with the Cross
Scale Biogeochemistry and Climate (CSBC) IGERT program. Congratulations,
Janet!
Gifted 14-year-old scientist conducts research at Cornell. Lauren Hodge, a winner of Google's Global Science Fair, worked with graduate student Kyle Delwiche in Professor Todd Walter's lab to determine how pulverized pumpkin reacts to water contaminated with hard metals.
Artificial intestine could treat children's bowel condition. Professor John March and Professor David Hackam (Univ. of Pittsburgh) have been given a 2011 Hartwell Collaboration Award for their proposal "Generation of an Artificial Intestine for the Treatment of Short Bowel Syndrome in Children".
Kiln to make rural Kenyan village energy self-sufficient with agricultural boon. Professor Lars Angenent and his researcher Hanno Richter are working with an interdisciplinary team working on a slow pyrolysis unit that will be used to harness the power of organic material to fuel an entire village in Kenya.