Mingming Wu
Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Mingming Wu is a Professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering. She was drawn to the field of biological engineering by her admiration of the exquisite micro- and nano-scale machinery found in the natural world. She leads the Biofluidics Lab, which develops micro- and nano-scale technologies for solving contemporary biological, medical, and environmental problems. Her lab gains inspiration by exploring how tiny cells (often 1/10th of the width of a hair) move within a given microenvironment. Her lab motto is to see the unseeable and to measure the unmeasurable, all though the development of new technologies.
Courses Taught
- BEE 4500 Bioinstrumentation
- BEE 4550/6550 Biologically Inspired Microsystems Engineering
Contact Information
306 Riley Robb Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
mw272 [at] cornell.edu
Mingming in the news
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News
A hard-working bacterium may soon have a large influence on processing rare-earth elements that help run smartphones, electric cars and wind turbines in an eco-friendly way.
- Cornell Atkinson
- Biological and Environmental Engineering
- Biology
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News
Cornell scientists have replaced the harsh chemical processing of rare earth elements – used to power electric cars, wind turbines and smartphones – with a benign practice called biosorption.
- Cornell Atkinson
- Biological and Environmental Engineering
- Environment