spotlight
A graduate student in biological and environmental engineering, Allison Truhlar studies E. coli adaptations for survival in agricultural soil, as well as greenhouse gas emissions from residential septic systems. She also conducts research on her teaching.
A Ph.D. candidate in art history and visual studies, Hannah Ryan looks at the visual and social history of the Americas as told through imagery of infant feeding. The overarching goal of her project is to normalize the sight of breastfeeding in the humanities.
Biomedical engineering doctoral student Aaron Chiou studies bone metastasis, which is the spread of cancer to bone. By researching how cancer works in the body, Chiou hopes to develop ways to prevent it from growing and spreading.
Xiaolu (Lucy) Wang is a third-year Ph.D. student in economics studying innovation and intellectual property rights in healthcare markets.
A doctoral student in soil and crop sciences, Ann Bybee-Finley was recently named a 2017 Future Leader in Science by the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA).
Louisa Smieska takes an interdisciplinary approach to her work as a scientist and researcher. She is currently a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she uses a technique called x-ray fluorescence (XRF) to identify which chemical elements are present in various artworks.
Lin Ma received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in August 2016. Her work focuses on advanced materials for energy storage systems.
Sociologist and Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow April Sutton works in the Cornell Population Center researching the areas of stratification and inequality, education, gender, labor markets, race and ethnicity, and work and occupations.
Postdoc Sarah Adeyemo works in Tim Settler's lab studying strategies to induce flowering in the staple crop cassava, the third most important source of calories for individuals in the tropics, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Development economist Nathaniel Jensen studies the dynamics of welfare and poverty reduction. He plans to move to Nairobi, Kenya, with his family in the near future to continue this work.