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Tiny platform creates and directs microbubbles on demand

Set within a 3-millimeter area on a chip, the new device produces hydrogen gas bubbles on a grid of electrodes, then powers the bubbles up with acoustic energy through ultrasound.

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham ’86 to talk startups Oct. 28

Graham will give a lecture titled “How to Turn Yourself Into a Startup Founder” in Kennedy Hall’s Call Auditorium.

Culberg joins NASA effort to probe rapidly changing Arctic glaciers

Riley Culberg, assistant professor, is a member of the science team for Snow4Flow, a new NASA mission to study how much ice glaciers contain and how much new snow they receive.

From farm to kitchen, Ficio is teaching robots about food

Ficio, a startup founded by Youhanna Meleka, M.Eng. ’26, is developing an AI platform for the food supply chain that can run on different machines and tackle very different jobs – from sorting apples in an orchard to turning potatoes into french fries.

Sheep grazing in solar fields offers farmers economic, ecological gains

As solar grazing expands across the country, new research helps sheep farmers increase profitability and sheds light on the how the number of sheep in solar array fields interacts with beneficial insects.

NSF awards $22.5M to continue plant-human communication projects

The Cornell-led multi-institutional Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems will continue work to transform agriculture by enabling direct two-way communication with crop plants’ internal processes.

Electrical sliding switches graphene between magnetic states

Researchers at the Cornell Duffield College of Engineering have found that electrically sliding the layers of ultrathin graphene can switch the material between distinct magnetic states that persist even after the voltage is removed.

A synthetic answer to the squeak in aging joints

Two Cornell researchers join forces to produce a substance that could keep knees, hips and shoulders gliding smoothly for a lifetime.

Fluorescent imaging tracks metabolism of cells in real time

Researchers designed a new, faster form of two-photon fluorescence imaging for observing cell metabolism in real time, a method that could enable quicker screening of new therapeutic treatments.

EPICC Awards recognize commitment to Duffield Engineering’s core values

The Cornell Duffield College of Engineering celebrated its fifth annual EPICC Awards on Oct. 8 in Statler Auditorium, recognizing faculty and staff whose work exemplifies the college’s core values of excellence, purpose, innovation, community and collaboration.