Featured Project
Local Engagement Stories
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![Offering fresh produce in addition to canned goods, meat and dairy items, Enfield Food Distribution welcomes 600 patrons weekly and provides 2 million pounds of food annually.]()
Pantry collaboration expands mission to fight food insecurity
To meet a growing need, Enfield Food Distribution is working with a multidisciplinary Cornell team to design and raise funds for a larger, more welcoming facility.
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Students help Ithaca building owners see progress on emissions
Since 2016, students have worked to calculate and share the progress of the Ithaca 2030 District, an initiative to reduce the carbon footprint of Ithaca’s commercial buildings.
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Student project adds whimsy to downtown parking
An interdisciplinary team of students designed a new signage system for a downtown Ithaca parking garage that employs colors and animal imagery to help drivers.
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Students’ tool forecasts manganese in Ithaca water supply
To help the Ithaca Water Treatment Plant, engineering students have created a way to help predict concentrations of manganese in the city’s reservoir.
Regional and State Engagement Stories
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![Students in the Cornell Botanic Gardens' Learning by Leading program work on the new medicinal garden at Onondaga Nation School in Nedrow, New York.]()
Medicinal garden at Onondaga Nation School grows opportunity
The garden – a collaboration between Onondaga Nation and Cornell Botanic Gardens – will enable Onondaga Nation School to incorporate more lessons from and about their own culture.
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Southern Tier officials tap Cornell expertise to envision smart cities
Broome County is enlisting the expertise of Cornell researchers and other specialists to implement advanced “smart city” technology, aiming to potentially enhance flood warnings, provide real-time parking updates and optimize waste management.
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![Adrienne Yoon ’25 demonstrates the use of the manual blood pressure cuff and all-in-one device at Cayuga Medical Center.]()
Students transmit health care data without cell service, internet
Using low-frequency radio waves to send blood pressure data, a group of students has provided a proof of concept that could enable in-home health care for people without cellular or broadband access.
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Students use the Internet of Things to connect, inspire
From monitoring blood pressure to potholes: Professor Max Zhang’s Internet of Things (IoT) course teaches students how to leverage IoT sensor technology to solve real-world problems and help the community.
National and Global Engagement Stories
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![With the community, the 2024 Engineers in Action project team built a bridge over the Black Mbuluzi River in Eswatini – connecting 5,400 people to schools, health care and markets.]()
Student team expands impact with water and bridge projects in Eswatini
The Engineers in Action project team has built footbridges connecting thousands in Eswatini to schools, health care and markets – now the group is expanding their impact with two new projects.
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Cornell to help bring clean drinking water to rural Puerto Rico
Cornell Engineering is leading an initiative to help small communities in Puerto Rico finance, build and operate clean drinking water systems, with the goal of expanding the project to other U.S. locations.
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![Buses in some Chattanooga, Tennessee, neighborhoods will be included in an AI-powered network designed by Cornell engineers to dynamically recommend efficient routes and modes of travel through a mobile app.]()
Cornell to help revamp Chattanooga public transit with AI power
Cornell researchers are helping to transform portions of Chattanooga’s transit system into a seamless, AI-powered network where buses, shuttles, electric cars and bikes work together to provide the most efficient routes – at the push of a button.
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New Cornell tech to evaluate anemia to be used across India
Cornell researchers develop affordable test for iron deficiency, which affects 2 billion people, disproportionately impacting women of childbearing age as well as infants and young children.
