Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: Cornell’s Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) is a gateway to a wide variety of exciting possibilities. Chemical and biomolecular engineers have a significant role in formulating solutions to many of the world’s problems. Our graduates are involved in the production of food, pharmaceuticals, energy, electronics, innovative materials, and consumer products. They contribute markedly in research labs, government agencies, production facilities, research hospitals, and academic institutions.
We believe this symposium will give us a unique and important opportunity to meet and engage with emerging scholars in the bio-molecular side of our field, as well as support those that cross over with biomedical engineer, infection biology, and quantitative biomedical sciences.
Information Science: Information Science examines information systems in their social, cultural, economic, historical, legal, and political contexts. Studying technology and the ways in which technology is used is essential to the field. Our 42 faculty members are leaders in their respective fields within Information Science’s interdisciplinary structure, specializing in areas like machine learning, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, user-experience design, tech-law policy, and much more.
Microbiology: Our faculty teach a wide portfolio of microbiology courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. We also serve as the home department for the Graduate Field of Microbiology (with over 40 affiliated faculty members) and provide a center of expertise for numerous aspects of microbial biology. Research within our department is focused on prokaryotic molecular biology and environmental microbiology.
We are especially interested in identifying candidates working in the areas of either quantitative biomedical sciences or infection biology, both of which fall squarely within our department’s areas of interest.
Microbiology and Immunology: The Department of Microbiology and Immunology comprises an interactive faculty engaged in research in infectious disease and host immune response. We study a range of pathogens, including viruses, bacteria and parasites, and other insults such as toxins. Our immunology interests stretch from understanding immune protection to vaccine development. We plan to hire at the assistant professor level in the area of infection biology and immunology.
Molecular Biology and Genetics: The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics engages in cutting-edge research, training, and teaching to solve basic questions in the life sciences and to apply biological knowledge to critical medical, agricultural and environmental problems. Our goal is to inspire the next generation of scientists, teachers, and communicators by providing research mentorship and classroom instruction in biochemistry, bioinformatics, cell biology, genetics, and molecular biology and by initiating and participating in collaborative research across the Cornell campuses.
There is significant excitement and energy in the department for building relationships with emerging scholars research interests in the areas of quantitative biomedical sciences.