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Piotr Lazarek, a M&T’25 alumni from Poland, won the 2025 President’s Sustainability Prize for Nirby, a real-time farmland management system addressing inefficiencies in fertilizer usage. We sat down with him to find out more about how he’s using satellites, drones, and AI for more sustainable and efficient agriculture. Q. Congratulations on winning the President’s Sustainability Prize ...Read More

Joey Levin has served as Executive Chairman of Angi, a leading platform for home services, since April 2025 when it spun off of from IAC, an NYC-based holding company that is home to dozens of digital products and iconic brands that engage millions of consumers every day, to form an independent company. Mr. Levin serves ...Read More

Last summer, the M&T Intern Fellowship Award allowed him to have hands-on experience at a sustainable construction start-up in New York City. Herewith he reflects on his time in the M&T Program, talks about his internship, and chats about life after college. Q: Why did you apply for the Intern Fellowship Award? ST: I had an ...Read More

From Puppy Pads to Medical Masks: How A ‘Shark Tank’ Entrepreneur is Helping Fresno Hospitals. Read the full article on NPR. Read More

Seemingly as inevitable as death and taxes, the rich once again have grown richer. For the first time since 1994, there is a new No. 1, as Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos breaks Bill Gates’ 24-year run at the top. Bezos is also the first person to appear in the ranks with a fortune ...Read More

Tesla ended its Q4 2018 earnings call with a bit of a surprise, albeit one we’ve heard before: CFO Deepak Ahuja will be retiring. In his place, Zach Kirkhorn, previously the company’s vice president of finance is taking over. Kirkhorn had only been the VP of finance for 2 months prior to today’s announcement. However, current CFO Ahuja ...Read More

Arjun Neervannan is a First Year student in the M&T Program from Irvine, CA studying Computer and Information Science in the School of Engineering and an Undeclared concentration in the Wharton School. Last May, he won one of the Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholarships. Each year, nearly 1,900 students submit original research in critically important ...Read More

  2019 SEAS wide senior design winners were our integration lab team of Emily Spencer M&T’19 and her team mate Gray Desimone SEAS’19. Their project Kirigami Architecture focused on creating sustainable building envelopes for energy conservation also won the most innovative award in the M&T Summit held in the Glandt Forum on March 30th. The project ...Read More

An interdisciplinary team comprised of Xiaoyi Chen, M&T’19, Fangyi Fa M&T’19, Quinn Wu M&T’19 along with their teammates Vanessa Howell, Yoonji Lee and Mia Masour, all SEAS’19, competed in the Cornell Cup Competition held over May 3-4 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. S.S. MAPR, a smart autonomous surface vehicle for river water sampling, ...Read More