Archives: Spotlights
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…
Student Spotlight: Michelle Tong

I understand you completed your degree this January. Congratulations! What was your area of research? I study memory for smells and the molecular mechanisms involved in remembering them. What inspired…
Student Spotlight: Jeffrey Wall

What is your area of research? My area of research is most accurately described as ethnobiology, or the study of the dynamism and diversity inherent to human relations with biota…
Student Spotlight: Eilis Monahan

What is your area of research? I’m an archaeologist, and my main area of interest is social and political developments in the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East. …
Student Spotlight: Joonsuk (Jon) Park

What is your area of research and what inspired you to choose this field of study? My area is natural language processing, which is a subarea of artificial intelligence that…
Student Spotlight: Sachi Horibata

This March, Sachi Horibata was named the winner of this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition for her work titled “PAD12 – New Approaches to Treating Breast Cancer.” See her presentation here. What…