Archives: Spotlights
Student Spotlight: Maralmaa Munkh-Achit
October 17, 2022 Maralmaa Munkh-Achit is a master’s student in public administration with a concentration in international development from Erdenet, Mongolia. She attended Brigham Young University as an undergraduate and…
Student Spotlight: Taylor Ferebee
October 10, 2022 Taylor Ferebee is a doctoral candidate in computational biology from Hampton, Virginia. She attended Roanoke College for her bachelor’s and Clemson University for her master’s and now…
Student Spotlight: Sara Miller
September 26, 2022 — Updated March 28, 2025 Sara Miller is a doctoral student in geological sciences from San Diego, California. She attended the Georgia Institute of Technology as an undergraduate…
Student Spotlight: Ayress Grinage
September 19, 2022 Ayress Grinage is a doctoral candidate in plant biology who, as a military child, has lived in multiple places across the U.S. and abroad. She attended the…
Student Spotlight: Dory Peters
September 12, 2022 Dory Peters is a doctoral student in mechanical engineering from Nassau, Bahamas and Paterson, New Jersey. After studying physics and computer science at Montclair State University and…
Alumnus Spotlight: Joseph Casamento, Ph.D. ’22
September 6, 2022 Joseph Casamento, Ph.D. ’22, is a doctoral alumnus of the materials science and engineering program from Kenilworth, New Jersey. He attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor…
Student Spotlight: Sophia Veltfort
August 29, 2022 Sophia Veltfort, M.F.A. ’20, is a doctoral candidate in English language and literature from New York City. She attended Yale University as an undergraduate and now studies…
Student Spotlight: Janine Comrie
July 18, 2022 Janine Comrie is a doctoral student in nutrition from south Florida. She attended Yale University as an undergraduate and now studies how gut bacteria transform nutrients. What…
Alumna Spotlight: Emily Riddle, Ph.D. ’18
July 5, 2022 Emily Riddle, Ph.D. ’18, is an alumna of the nutrition program at Cornell, from which she earned a Ph.D. She is now an assistant professor of foods…
Student Spotlight: Angela Nankabirwa
June 6, 2022 Angela Nankabirwa is a doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology from Kampala, Uganda. She studies harmful algal blooms and their impacts on fisheries. Nankabirwa is a…