Postdoc Spotlight: Spencer Debenport
Spencer Debenport is featured as part of Cornell’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2016. What is your area of research? I study the diversity and function of microorganisms in plants and soils. My main…
Archives: Spotlights
Student Spotlight: Whitten Overby
What is your area of research? I write history, theory, and criticism about the relationships between media—primarily film and television—the built environment, identity, and politics. My research focuses on how,…
Student Spotlight: Hui Jing
What is your area of research? The Sir2 (silencing information regulator 2) family of enzymes, or sirtuins, were originally known as nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent protein lysine deacetylase. Mammals have…
Student Spotlight: Gabrielle Borenstein
In summer 2016, Gabrielle Borenstein was awarded the prestigious and competitive Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship, which was established to support graduate students with outstanding character and ability who hold promise for achievement…
Student Spotlight: David Agyeman-Budu
What is your area of research? My area of research is developing an x-ray scanning probe technique called confocal x-ray fluorescence (CXRF) microscopy at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). What…
Student Spotlight: Madhur Srivastava
What is your area of research? I am a third year Ph.D. student in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering and doing my research at the National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technology…
Student Spotlight: Mitchell Ishmael
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…
Student Spotlight: Amanda Bares
What is your area of research? I am currently a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, with minors in neurobiology and applied and engineering physics…
Student Spotlight: Bill Bedell
What is your area of research? I am a systems biologist. My work typically involves assembling lots of scientific observations about a particular living system and then using an engineering…
Student Spotlight: Annabelle Beaver
What is your area of research? I am a third year Ph.D. student in animal science with minors in epidemiology and microbiology. I am currently researching Johne’s disease, a chronic…