Archives: Spotlights
Student Spotlight: Monique Pipkin

March 8, 2021 Monique Pipkin is a doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology from Auburn Hills, Michigan. After earning her undergraduate degree at Western Michigan University, she chose to…
Student Spotlight: Juliana González-Tobón

March 1, 2021 (Updated April 4, 2022 and April 22, 2024) Juliana González-Tobón is a doctoral student in plant pathology and plant-microbe biology from Bogotá, Colombia. After attending the Universidad de…
Student Spotlight: Angela Zhou

February 22, 2021 Angela Zhou is a doctoral candidate in operations research and information engineering from Marlboro, New Jersey. After attending Princeton University as an undergraduate, she chose to pursue…
Alumnus Spotlight: Adem Efe Gencer, Ph.D. ’17

February 15, 2021 Adem Efe Gencer, Ph.D. ’17, is an alumnus of the computer science program at Cornell who now works at LinkedIn as a staff software engineer. His dissertation…
Student Spotlight: Yiqing Hua

February 5, 2021 Yiqing Hua is a computer science doctoral candidate from Jiangsu, China. After attending Shanghai Jiaotong University as an undergraduate, she chose to pursue further study at Cornell…
Student Spotlight: Nikola Danev

February 2, 2021 Nikola Danev is a doctoral student in genetics, genomics, and development from Skopje, North Macedonia. After earning an undergraduate degree at Columbia University, he decided to pursue…
Alumna Spotlight: Carol-Rose Little, Ph.D. ’20

February 2, 2021 Carol-Rose Little, Ph.D. ’20, is an alumna of the linguistics program at Cornell, from which she holds a Ph.D. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in the…
Alumnus Spotlight: Derek Holyoak, Ph.D. ’18

February 2, 2021 Derek Holyoak, Ph.D. ’18, is an alumnus of the biomedical engineering program at Cornell. He is now a senior associate in the Biomedical Engineering & Sciences Practice…
Alumnus Spotlight: Jason Guss, Ph.D. ’18

February 2, 2021 Jason Guss, Ph.D. ’18, is an alumnus of the biomedical engineering program at Cornell. He is now CEO at Iterate Labs, an AI software platform he worked…
Alumnus Spotlight: William Pennock, Ph.D. ’19

February 2, 2021 William Pennock, Ph.D. ’19, is an alumnus of the civil and environmental engineering program at Cornell. He is now an assistant professor in the department of civil…