What is your area of research? I’m a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA), working mainly in the field of Theatre Arts. In very broad terms, my work looks at the subject (“actor”) and power (“script”); I’m especially interested in the body as it works within and struggles against…
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 this fits into the larger ecology of the soil system. To do this, we use a technique known as stable-isotope probing, in which we add…
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…
Akhiles (Danny) Sindra completed his MPS in Information Science in December 2015. This past fall semester, Sindra created a mobile application called C.U. in Nature to accompany the Nature Rx Cornell initiative, which was developed to help students reduce stress and improve health by interacting with nature. Congratulations on completing your MPS in Information Science! What…
What is your area of research? I’m a musicologist and my research focuses on a generation of Polish-Jewish musicians born near the turn of the 20th century. I follow this group of composers and musical intellectuals from their studies in the 1930s, through World War II and the Holocaust, into postwar Stalinist reconstruction. These figures…
