BME Fun Facts
This BME lab prints ears.
The Bonassar lab
Cornell University was founded in this year.
1865
This popular Halloween candy asks you to “Taste the Rainbow”.
Skittles
This Halloween monster eats brains.
Zombie
Set in the town of Derry, Maine, this horror movie features one of the most infamous clowns in movie history.
IT
In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered these rays and imaged his wife’s hand with them.
X-rays
This childhood staple food was invented at Cornell in the 1950s.
Chicken Nuggets
Before pumpkins became the standard, jack o lanterns were carved out of this root vegetable.
Turnips
This pacific island is known for its pink sand beaches.
Bermuda
This horror movie was filmed in a real hotel in Colorado.
The Shining
This many faculty were in the BME department at Cornell during its founding.
These two north campus dorms combine to create the letters "CU" when viewed from above.
Clara Dickson Hall and Balch Hall
Halloween originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain in this country.
Ireland
This instrument is used to measure atmospheric pressure.
Barometer
This 2026 horror film was made on a budget of only $750,000
Obsession
Wilson Greatbatch accidentally installed the wrong electronic component while working on a heart-recording cricut, helping inspire this lifesaving implant.
The Pacemaker
The Cornell dairy bar has this many flavors in their rotation at any given moment.
24
This iconic villain wears hockey masks and wields a machete to terrorize campers at camp crystal lake.
Jason Vorhees
This Fuzzy insect belongs to the genus Bombus.
Bumblebee
This horror movie series contains the warning, "You should never say 'Who's there?' Don't you watch scary movies? It's a death wish."
Scream
Adapted from a bacterial immune system, this gene-editing tool earned Doudna and Charpentier the 2020 Nobel in Chemistry.
CRISPR-Cas9
This is the newest major in the school of engineering.
Earth and Climate Science
The fear of halloween is known by this lengthy term.
Samhainophobia
The Beatles sang about a yellow one.
Submarine
This 1974 horror classic was advertised as a true story, but was actually only loosely based on real events.