Spencer Debenport is featured as part of Cornell’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2016.  What is your area of research? I study the diversity and function of microorganisms in plants and soils. My main…

I understand you completed your degree this January. Congratulations! What was your area of research?  I study memory for smells and the molecular mechanisms involved in remembering them. What inspired…

What is your area of research and what inspired you to choose this field of study? My area is natural language processing, which is a subarea of artificial intelligence that…

What is your area of research? Broadly speaking, I study moral psychology. In particular, my main line of research since I’ve been at Cornell has been to study perceptions of…

What is your area of research? Broadly, I use environmental psychology and cognitive science within education domains to understand environmental behavior of K-12 educators and their students. My research emphasizes cognitive-behavioral perspectives, specifically the role…

The subject of plant breeding and genetics Ph.D. student Anna Levina’s research is familiar to most people—in fact, it’s arguably America’s favorite snack food: potato chips. Levina’s research aims to…

What is your area of research? I work to understand the cycling of carbon substrates by soil microbes—our lab strives to understand what microbes cycle different carbon substrates and how…