This award honors faculty members who have served as dedicated advocates who foster diversity, inclusion, and equity in higher education through exemplary mentorship, leadership, and/or outreach activities within the Cornell community. Those who receive this award have shown an unwavering commitment to promoting the growth and personal and professional development of graduate and professional students who represent the diversity of the Cornell community. It is given by the Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement at the Graduate School and selected by the Graduate and Professional Diversity Council.
A study led by professor Fengqi You introduces a scalable, aqueous-based method to recycle perovskite solar cells, providing a more sustainable path forward for photovoltaics. Read more about New recycling method makes perovskite solar cells more sustainable
In the same way that terrestrial life evolved from ocean swimmers to land walkers, soft robots are progressing, too, thanks to recent Cornell research in battery development and design. Read more about ‘Embodied energy’ powers modular worm, jellyfish robots
A research team led by Cornell has demonstrated how quantum computing and artificial intelligence can be used to design new peptides capable of capturing microplastics that pose serious risks to... Read more about AI, quantum drive discovery of peptides for microplastic cleanup
