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Celebrating Cornell BME faculty who make an impact in the classroom! 🎓
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Congratulations to Chris Schaffer and Alex Kwan, recipients of 2026 Duffield Engineering Teaching Awards. The honors recognize their contributions to teaching, curriculum design and student learning at Cornell.
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Read more about this year’s faculty award recipients at the link in bio. taken in The Statler Hotel at Cornell University by @cornelluniversitybme

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From Cornell to a career in medical device R&D. 🔬
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Michelle Walther ’15, M.Eng. ’16, says her Cornell experience prepared her to balance independent work with collaboration, bring different areas of expertise together and take on challenges before she felt completely ready.
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Today, she’s a Staff Engineer and subject matter expert at BD, working on products focused on oncology and minimal residual disease detection.
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Her story is a reminder that the skills you build at Cornell can continue to open doors long after graduation.
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Read Michelle’s story at the link in bio. taken in Cornell University by @cornelluniversitybme

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Can AI support students’ critical thinking?
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Assistant Professor Alexandra Werth is leading a new $750,000 NSF-funded project exploring how generative AI can be used to strengthen students’ reflection and critical-thinking skills.
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The interdisciplinary team will study an AI-powered reflection tool in engineering, biology and physics courses, asking whether AI can help students engage more deeply with what they learn rather than outsource their reasoning.
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For full article, see link in bio. by @cornelluniversitybme

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Where can a Cornell BME M.Eng. take you? The Class of 2016 has some answers.
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A decade after graduation, alumni are building careers across medical devices, pharmaceuticals, robotics, consulting, bioinformatics, project management, sales and entrepreneurship. At their 10-year reunion, they returned to campus to share their experiences, mentor current students and reconnect with classmates.
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Their paths may be different, but the technical foundation, adaptability and connections built through the M.Eng. continue to shape their careers.
@cornelleng @cornelluniversity @cornellalumni
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Full article: See link in bio. by @cornelluniversitybme

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A multidisciplinary Cornell team used single-cell analysis to distinguish two similar canine oral cancers and identified ERBB4 as a potential therapeutic target. The FDA-approved drug neratinib showed promise in suppressing tumor growth.

Cornell BME professor Iwijn De Vlaminck is a co-author of the study, which brings together biomedical engineering, genomics and veterinary medicine to explore a potential new treatment approach.

More: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/08/existing-drug-could-treat-invasive-canine-oral-tumors taken in Cornell University by @cornelluniversitybme

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What does it really mean to learn teamwork?
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For engineering students, collaboration is essential to solving complex problems, but simply assigning students to a team doesn’t necessarily help them develop the skills they need to collaborate effectively.
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@cornelluniversitybme assistant professor Alexandra Werth is taking a closer look at how engineering educators can intentionally teach teamwork. With a new $499,999 NSF grant, Werth and her team will develop a framework connecting specific teamwork learning goals, such as managing conflict, giving and receiving feedback, and working across different areas of expertise, with effective teaching strategies.
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The goal is to move beyond a one-size-fits-all approach and give instructors practical tools to help students develop the collaborative skills they’ll need as engineers.
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Read more: See link in bio. by @cornelluniversitybme

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Three @cornelleng faculty are among seven Cornell researchers receiving 2026-27 Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) grants to advance biotechnology through partnerships with New York companies.
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Congratulations to Larry Bonassar , Rong Yang , & Kyra Gan for projects on repairing herniated discs, a non-invasive immune therapy designed to reduce childhood antibiotic exposure, and modeling to optimize IVF treatment, respectively!
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Together, the seven projects received more than $1.2 million in CAT support to help move promising biotechnology research toward real-world applications.
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Read more: see link in bio. taken in Ithaca, New York by @cornelluniversitybme

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Biomedical engineering comes to life when students can see firsthand how engineering meets patient needs.
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Through the Michael Shuler Clinical Immersion Program our students can gain experience in clinical settings @weillcornell , connecting what they learn in the classroom with patient care and real-world problem-solving.
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Beckie ’82 and Neil Robertson ’82 have endowed the program, inspired by the hands-on experiences that helped shape their own careers.
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Their support will help future Cornell biomedical engineering students learn alongside clinicians, observe patient care and develop a deeper understanding of the challenges they may one day solve as engineers. taken in Weill Cornell Medicine by @cornelluniversitybme

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What happens when engineers and immunologists work together to see the immune system in action?
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Cornell Duffield Engineering researchers Iwijn De Vlaminck, Chris Xu, Nozomi Nishimura and Chris Schaffer are part of a $13.3 million NIH-funded collaboration bringing advanced imaging and spatial genomics together to study how immune cells communicate inside living tissues.
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By combining engineering tools with immunology and computational science, the team can track immune-cell behavior across space and time, offering a more complete picture of inflammation, infection, tissue repair and immune memory.
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Read more -- link in bio. by @cornelluniversitybme

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What can research teach us about how students learn STEM? 🔬📚
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@cornelleng researchers are helping build a statewide network dedicated to answering that question. With @cornelluniversitycals colleagues, they co-led the inaugural Upstate New York Discipline-Based Education Research Conference, bringing educators from across New York together to build collaborations and advance evidence-based STEM education.
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The effort brought together researchers from across @cornelluniversity , with colleagues and educators from institutions throughout the state.
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Together, they’re building connections that can help strengthen STEM teaching and learning for the next generation of students.
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For full article see link in bio. taken in Cornell University by @cornelluniversitybme

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How does a developing heart coordinate the growth of its muscle and blood vessels?
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New research finds that localized drops in oxygen trigger a signaling system that helps balance the growth of heart muscle and coronary vessels, offering new clues about conditions that can lead to heart failure.
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Jonathan Butcher, @cornelluniversitybme Joseph Newton Pew Jr. Professor in Engineering collaborated on the study, helping reveal how disrupted coronary vessel development affects heart muscle.
w/ @weillcornell @cornelleng by @cornelluniversitybme

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