Archives: Spotlights
Student Spotlight: Mark W. Deets

What is your area of research? I study modern African history, focused on colonial and postcolonial (i.e. after 1850) Senegambia. My research studies the ways that people from Senegal’s Casamance…
Student Spotlight: Allison Truhlar

June 2, 2017 What is your area of research? I’ve pursued multiple lines of research while at Cornell. In my discipline, I study E. coli adaptations for survival in agricultural soil, as…
Student Spotlight: Hannah Ryan

What is your area of research? I am a doctoral candidate in art history and visual studies, and my area of specialty is the visual culture of the Americas, and…
Student Spotlight: Aaron Chiou

What is your area of research? I’m studying the process of bone metastasis, or the spread of cancer to bone. My research focuses on understanding how breast cancer affects bone…
Student Spotlight: Lucy Xiaolu Wang

What is your area of research? I am excited to study innovation and intellectual property rights in healthcare markets. Specifically, I investigate the causes and consequences of innovation in the…
Student Spotlight: Ann Bybee-Finley

What is your area of research? I study agroecology in the field of soil and crop sciences in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences. Agroecology is the study of agriculture as…
Postdoc Spotlight: Louisa Smieska

What is your area of research? I use a technique called x-ray fluorescence (XRF) to identify which chemical elements are present in objects, without removing samples. Objects studied with XRF…
Student Spotlight: Lin Ma

Lin Ma received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in August 2016. She is currently a postdoc fellow at Berkeley Lab. What is your area of research? Advanced materials for…
Postdoc Spotlight: April Sutton

Sociologist and Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow April Sutton is featured as part of Cornell’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2016. What is your area of research? My research cuts across the…
Postdoc Spotlight: Sarah Adeyemo

Sarah Adeyemo is featured as part of Cornell’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2016. What is your area of research? I currently work in Tim Setter’s lab studying a number of strategies…