John Wyatt Greenlee is a doctoral student in medieval studies from Salt Lake City, Utah. After attending Hamilton College as an undergraduate and East Tennessee State University for his masters, he chose to attend Cornell to study cartographic and spatial history. What is your area of research and why is it important? Describe your research…

Rama Alhabian is a doctoral student in near eastern studies from Hammah, Syria. After studying at Jeddah in Saudi Arabia as an undergrad, she chose to pursue graduate study at Cornell because of its variety of academic programs. What is your area of research and why is it important? I work on Arabic literature in…

Remy Barnes is a master of fine arts student from Tallahassee, Florida. After earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin, he came to Cornell to pursue an M.F.A. in fiction. What is your area of research and why is it important? The commonality between my various pieces of fiction is, in…

Lory Henderson is a doctoral student from Albuquerque, New Mexico. After studying antimicrobial production in cave bacteria as an undergrad at the University of New Mexico, she decided to pursue microbiology at Cornell. What is your area of research and why is it important? My project focuses on developing a scientific understanding around the causes…

Manuel Berduc is a doctoral student in history from Buenos Aires, Argentina and Upstate New York. After pursuing interests of theater, psychology, and philosophy while studying at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, he chose to attend Cornell to study Latin American and European intellectual labor history. What is your area…

Azul Pinochet-Barros is a doctoral student in microbiology from Madrid, Spain. After double majoring in biology and philosophy at Suffolk University in Boston, Mass., she chose to pursue a degree at Cornell due to the microbiology program’s interdisciplinary approach. What is your area of research and why is it important? Too much of a good…

Benjamin Marcy-Quay is a doctoral student in natural resources from Ann Arbor, Michigan. After earning his undergraduate degree at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania and working for the Department of Environmental Conservation, a masters opportunity in fisheries brought him to Cornell. What is your area of research and why is it important? I study populations…

Sheren Winarto is a professional student in food science and technology from Surabaya, Indonesia. After earning her bachelor’s degree at University of California, Davis, she chose to pursue an M.P.S. at Cornell where she could concentrate on food chemistry and product development. What is your area of research and why is it important? My area…

Hazel Rivera is a doctoral student in aerospace engineering from Manatí, Puerto Rico. After studying mechanical engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and learning of the quality of research at Cornell, she came to Ithaca to pursue further studies.  What is your area of emphasis? Why is this work important? My interests…

Brooke Zanetell is an alumna of the natural resources program at Cornell from which she holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. Prior to attending Cornell, she earned her B.S. in biology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Since leaving Cornell, she worked in the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., and has become an…