Archives: Spotlights
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…
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…