Archives: Spotlights
Student Spotlight: Kalia Bistolas

What is your area of research? I am a second-year graduate student in the Department of Microbiology at Cornell. I am interested in the ecology of viruses that infect aquatic…
Student Spotlight: Mariano Sanchez Talanquer

What is your area of research? I study comparative politics with a focus on the historical development of states in Latin America. I am generally interested in the origins of…
Postdoc Spotlight: Rebecca Dyer

What is your area of research? Broadly speaking, I study moral psychology. In particular, my main line of research since I’ve been at Cornell has been to study perceptions of…
Student Spotlight: Nirav Patel

What is your area of research? Broadly, I use environmental psychology and cognitive science within education domains to understand environmental behavior of K-12 educators and their students. My research emphasizes cognitive-behavioral perspectives, specifically the role…
Student Spotlight: Anna Levina

The subject of plant breeding and genetics Ph.D. student Anna Levina’s research is familiar to most people—in fact, it’s arguably America’s favorite snack food: potato chips. Levina’s research aims to…
Student Spotlight: Nick Fesette

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…
Student Spotlight: Chantal Koechli

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…
Student Spotlight: Jiai Zhang

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…
Student Spotlight: Akhiles (Danny) Sindra

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…
Student Spotlight: MacKenzie Pierce

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…