Tag Archive | awards
Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems GRC
Max Tepermeister and Si Chen participated Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference at the end of January in sunny Ventura, CA. This year’s theme was Active and Biomimetic Materials That Embody Intelligence. Si presented her work on engineering mechanics and growth of plant leaves. And Max won best […]
Si Chen wins Fleming Fellowship!
Congratulations to ELMI postdoc and MMD group member Dr. Si Chen for winning the Fleming Research Fellowship from the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology! The Fleming Research Fellows program was established in 2008 to support talented young women and men at Cornell who are doing cutting-edge research in basic biomedical sciences and are […]
Congratulations to Zhongtong and Ellen!
Congratulations to Zhongtong and Ellen for being accepted into the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) student paper competition and to Ellen for receiving the 3rd place award! Both students presented their work this past Monday at the SEM annual conference in Vancouver Washington.
MMD lab goes to SES
Four MMD lab group members, PhD candidates Zhongtong Wang and Max Tepermeister, and Postdocs Si Chen and Robert Wagner, presented at the Society of Engineering Science annual conference in Minneapolis last week. Si and Robert were also selected to participate in the Future Faculty symposium! As usual Prof Silberstein did not succeed in taking a […]
Congratulations Bex
Congratulations to soon to be MMD lab alum Bex Pendrak for achieving honorable mention for the highly competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program! Bex will be starting a PhD program in the fall.
Atkinson Venture Fund grant awarded for Engineered Living Materials
Prof. Silberstein is part of a winning Atkinson Venture Fund grant team. The interdisciplinary project is led by Prof. Rong Yang in the Chemical and Biological Engineering department at Cornell. This new ELMI project “Engineered Living Materials for Indoor Air Quality Control,” will use a hybrid approach of yeast and synthetic polymers to take on […]
Update
We’re a bit behind on posting, so here’s a bunch of MMD lab updates in one. Congratulations to Shreya Gowda on another award! This time she’s won Aviation Week’s 20 Twenties – a worldwide competition for top aerospace bound students. We have two new collaborative papers out: “Microstructural evolution of polyurea under hydrostatic pressure” in […]
Congratulations to Shreya on her Brooke Owens fellowship!
MMD lab undergraduate Shreya Gowda won the prestigious Brooke Owens fellowship. See here for the department spotlight on her.
Shreya wins ELI Award!
Congratulations to Shreya Gowda for winning an Engineering Learning Initiatives undergraduate research award for her project “Dynamic Bond Approach to Improving Resin Transfer Molding Composites”!
Mechanics for Material Design 