Cornell Electric Vehicles: the first electric vehicles project team at Cornell! Established in 2014, Cornell Electric Vehicles (CEV) is the first electric vehicles project team at Cornell. We pave the way for student teams to design fully electric vehicles. Moreover,...
Life on the Hill: Student Blog
Cornell’s Society of Black Engineers Is Here to Help
Founded in 1977, the National Society of Black Engineers - Cornell University (NSBE-CU) is the premier organization for black students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors at Cornell. Our mission is to increase the number of black...
Study Abroad: Madrid, Spain
Study Abroad: Madrid, Spain - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) My weekends in Spain were spent travelling to different cities within the country, improving my Spanish, and exploring the incredible city of Madrid! My other favorite city was Valencia, where all...
Making Cornell My Home Away From Home
In August 2021, I packed my life in two suitcases and left Monterrey, Mexico with no mixed emotions at all. All I could feel was excitement and this overwhelming happiness that took over any thought of nostalgia or sadness. I drove into Ithaca with my family and...
My Project Team Experience: Nexus
Nexus is a unique project team, tackling one of the most pressing challenges in sustainability, microplastics. Specifically, we are working on developing a robot that can clean beaches autonomously, preventing waste from getting into the ocean. The 4 subteams,...
Migrating Birds, Computer Science, and Why I Love Teaching Introductory Programming at Cornell
I regularly volunteer to teach introductory programming (CS1110: Introduction to Computing Using Python) because I love bringing ideas from computer science to students from all over the university. One of my go-to stories is of a first-year bird enthusiast who took...
Engineers Without Borders: My Project Team Experience
My name is Ella, and I am an Environmental Engineering major here at Cornell. I am also a part of a project team on campus, Engineers Without Borders (EWB). When I came to Cornell, I knew I wanted to be involved in the community and be part of a larger cause. When...
Undergraduate Research: Biomedical Engineering
As a biomedical engineering major here at Cornell, like many others, I was looking for a way to gain experience outside of my coursework. There are over 10 research labs just in the BME department alone, with each one specializing in a different angle in biomedical...
WICC: Making Tech Accessible at Cornell
In my first semester at Cornell, I decided to sign up for WICC’s (Women in Computing at Cornell’s) Lunch Bunch Program, which allowed female undergraduate students to converse with professors over a meal. In one session, there were around 7 other female undergraduates...