Archives: Spotlights
Postdoc Spotlight: Ana Maria Porras
Ana Maria Porras is featured as part of Cornell’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2017. What is your area of emphasis? Why is this work important? I work with Dr. Ilana Brito…
Postdoc Spotlight: Justin Richardson
Justin Richardson is featured as part of Cornell’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2017. What is your area of emphasis? Why is this work important? I am a low-temperature geochemist, focusing primarily…
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…