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 ...
SPRING 2009 SEMINARS
The Spring 2009 BEE Research Symposium was held on Friday, February 27th, 2009.
Details on the SP2010 Symposium will be available soon! 2009 Program. 2009 Abstract Book.
[Contact: akp28@cornell.edu]
Food and Bioprocessing Engineering
Click here to see the FORA.tv interview with Professor Larry Walker discussing how and why his lab makes ethanol out of switchgrass.
Click here to listen to Professor Antje Baeumner discussing the future possibilities for the universal biosensors under development in her lab.
Click here to see the USDA CSREES interview with Professor Dan Luo discussing his work with nanoscale 'barcode' disease detectors.
Click here to see the USDA CSREES interview with Professor Todd Walter discussing how he uses nanoscale tracers to uncover the sources of pollution in America's farm fields and waters.
STUDENT PROFILES [pre-2010]
IBE Student Chapter
Tracy Cheung, BE'10, is a member of the Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (CUAUV) Team that earned first place in the 12th annual competition in San Diego, August, 2009. Cornell Chronicle Story. More.
Alyssa Henning, BE'10, is active in the Phoenix Society, CUWinds, and iGEM. See more in her College of Engineering Student Profile.
Jessica Wind, BE'10, is taking two minors and manages Cornell's football team. See more in her College of Engineering Student Profile.
Stephen Linderman, BE'10, is a Rawlings Presidential Research Scholar from Rome, NY. He was also named a 2009 Goldwater Scholar. See the Cornell Chronicle Story.
CAREER SERVICES SURVEY 2008 PDF:
Professor Ashim Datta and Vineet Rakesh, Ph.D./BE'09, have coauthored a book An Introduction to Modeling of Transport Processes: Applications to Biomedical Systems. More.
CALS Outstanding Alumni/Faculty/Staff Awards 2009. Professor Larry Walker has received a CALS 2009 Outstanding Faculty Award. The award recognizes "significant contributions in teaching, research, extension or administration". Awardees were honored at a reception and dinner November 6, 2009. Congratulations, Larry!
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has invited Profs. Antje Baeumner and Dan Luo to present at a high-tech/innovation showcase she hosted in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 28, 2009. The showcase demonstrated ways BEE, Cornell University and other NY high-tech institutions and companies can and are driving economic growth and advancing technologies in New York State.
![Prof. Doug Haith [Photo by Rachel Philipson, Ithaca Times]](/cals/bee/news-events/images/Prof-Doug-Haith-Photo-by-Rachel-Philipson-Ithaca-Times.jpg "Prof. Doug Haith [Photo by Rachel Philipson, Ithaca Times]")
Cornell Researchers examine sources of pollution. The Ithaca Times reports on a recent study by Prof. Doug Haith, Sara Morey, BE-Bioenv'07, and other collaborators. See the Ithaca Journal for a related article, Conference examines phosphorus in Cayuga Lake.
Environmental engineering degree program is accredited. BEE and CEE's jointly administered environmental engineering degree program has been accredited by ABET, Inc.
BEE is happy to welcome Adjunct Associate Prof. Mingming Wu. Her research interests are in the broad area of micro-scale biological and environmental engineering. She comes to us from the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell. Her research group is currently recruiting PhD Students and Postdocs on the subject of Microfluidics and Cancer Cell Migration. See more of what she does on her website.
Portable lab could improve disaster response, personalized care. Prof. Antje Baeumner has been collaborating with Rheonix, Inc. "to develop a unique system called the Chemistry and Reagent Device (CARDTM)".
Four NYS small businesses awarded Cornell JumpStart projects for fall 2009. Prof. Antje Baeumner is working with Oratel Diagnostics, Hammondsport, NY on a test strip used to detect the presence of endometriosis in women.
Biotech bacteria could help diabetics: Genetically engineered gut bacteria trigger insulin production in mice. Prof. John March presented his preliminary research at the American Chemical Society conference in Washington, D.C. "If [the epithelial cells and the healthy bacteria] are already signaling to one another, why not signal something we want?" asks March.