Nathaniel Jensen is featured as part of Cornell’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2016. What is your area of research? I am a development economist studying the dynamics of welfare and poverty reduction. Most of my research has focused on household strategies for risk mitigation and the use of index insurance as a tool for transferring risk.…
What is your area of research? I work on understanding the heat capacity of fluid mixtures under supercritical conditions (think fluids at high temperature and pressure). What inspired you to choose this field of study? I went to graduate school to work on renewable energy systems, any type really. My advisor, Jefferson Tester, studies a…
This March, Sachi Horibata was named the winner of this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition for her work titled “PAD12 – New Approaches to Treating Breast Cancer.” See her presentation here. What is your area of research? My area of research and expertise is on cancer biology, particularly breast cancer. What inspired you to choose this field…
What is your area of research? My area of research is food science, focusing on dairy chemistry and processing, with a minor in marketing. My research is to develop a novel snack made of milk and soy protein for the Asian market and to study how critical processing parameters affect the final product. What inspired…
