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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SAVE THE DATE: MAY 14 & 15, 2012 for the Cornell University Symposium Honoring Wilfried Brutsaert and Jean-Yves Parlange. Click here for details.
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 was held March 2nd, 2012
[Contact: akp28@cornell.edu]
The 2012 Presenters: Joe Usack (Angenent Lab), Lauren Matlock (Baeumner Lab), Michaela TerAvest (Angenent Lab), Rebecca Marjerison (Soil and Water Lab), Roanna Ruiz (Luo Lab) and Matt Hall (Wu Lab).
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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30th Anniversary Chili Cookbook -- Click on the Chili Fly!
STUDENT PROFILES [pre-2012]
IBE Student Chapter Website
Thank you to the 2012 BioExpo crew: Aparna Ashok, Anne Elise Creamer, Hee Sung Park, Matt Liebers and Revanth Baddam, and congratulations to the 2012 poster award winners!
1st Place Zuckerman prize: Leah Marie Roldan, BE'12
2nd Place: Stellie Ford, BE'13
3rd Place: Tianyu Wang, BE'12
Alpha Epsilon Student Chapter Blog
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Lulu Bai, BE'12,
has received numerous accolades: Eng UG Learning Initiative Research
Award, Cornell Hughes Scholar, CEAA UG Researcher of the Year (2010),
and is a Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholar. More
James Chiang, BE'12,
is a Class of 2012 Banner Bearer and has received a CALS Academic
Excellence award. He studied abroad in Kyoto, Japan last semester,
mostly working on the language but he is also very interested in the
history and sociology of the country. More
Iriny Ekladious, BE'12,
has been doing research under the tutelage of Professor Claudia
Fischbach in BME. She has also spent two summer research internships,
with Genentech in San Francisco, CA, and with Johnson & Johnson in
Skillman, NJ. More
Randall Meyer, BE'12,
is a Class of 2012 Degree Marshall and has received a CALS Academic
Excellence award. He is a Hunter Rawlings Presidential Research Scholar
with his project "Utilization of a zebrafish model to elucidate
mechanisms of transmission of VHSV" in Professor James Casey's lab. More
Jae Hyon Park, BE'12,
has worked in the Luo Lab since August 2010, and is a co-author for a
paper submitted to ChemPhysChem, "Systematic studies of UV stability and
photopolymerization efficiency of DNA-based nanomaterials". He has
worked as a Teaching Assistant for BEE3310 Biofluid Mechanics, BEE3500 Biological and Environmental Transport Processes, and BEE3650 Properties of Biological Materials.
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Leah Roldan, BE'12,
will be pursuing a Master of Engineering with Cornell's BME Department
this fall. She has worked as a student researcher in the Reinhart-King
lab in BME since the summer of 2010. She is the winner of the first
place Zuckerman Prize for Excellence in Student Biological Engineering Research
for her poster presentation "Patterning 3D collagen microtracks for
cancer cell migration" at the 2012 BioExpo. More
Tianyu Wang, BE'12,
transferred as a sophomore to BEE from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in
Shanghai, China. He has been on the Dean's list
every semester he has been at Cornell. He is the third place winner
for his poster presentation "Tracking stem cell lineages in 3D", at the
2012 BioExpo. MoreGet BEE News as an RSS feed.
Congratulations to Professor Antje Baeumner for her 2012 SUNY Chancellor's Excellence in Teaching award!
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.