Archives: Spotlights
Student Spotlight: Hannah DeFelice
November 17, 2025 Hannah DeFelice is a doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology from Presque Isle, Maine. She earned her bachelor’s degree at the National Technical Institute for the…
Student Spotlight: Julianna Harden
November 17, 2025 Julianna Harden is a doctoral student in plant biology from Mobile, Alabama. She earned her B.S. at Howard University and now studies the characterization of fungal diversity…
Student Spotlight: Everlynn Khamjoi
November 17, 2025 Everlynn Khamjoi is a doctoral student in communication from Stockton, California. She earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of California, San Diego and now studies how…
Student Spotlight: Motoyuki Yoshihara
November 10, 2025 Motoyuki Yoshihara is a doctoral student in applied economics and management from Boston, Massachusetts. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of California San Diego and…
Student Spotlight: Celeste Groux
October 27, 2025 Celeste Groux is a doctoral student in operations research and information engineering from Châteauguay, a suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She earned her bachelor’s degree at McGill…
Student Spotlight: Aleesha George
October 13, 2025—Updated April 27, 2026 Aleesha George is a doctoral candidate in chemistry and chemical biology from Kerala, India. She earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Kerala University…
Alum Spotlight: Ibrahim Gemeah, Ph.D. ’23
September 22, 2025 Ibrahim Gemeah, Ph.D. ’23, is an alumnus of the Near Eastern studies doctoral program with a focus on the history of the modern Middle East. He is…
Alum Spotlight: Jen Grauer, Ph.D. ’24
September 19, 2025 Jen Grauer, Ph.D. ’24, is a postdoc in the department of natural resources and the environment from Owings Mills, Maryland. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University,…
Alum Spotlight: Heather Kim, Ph.D. ’24
September 19, 2025 Heather Kim, Ph.D. ’24, is a postdoc in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Seoul, South Korea. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and her research focuses…
Alum Spotlight: Leah Shenandoah, Ph.D. ’23
September 8, 2025 Leah Shenandoah, Ph.D. ’23, is an alumna of the fiber science and apparel design doctoral program at Cornell with minors in Indigenous studies, ethnography, and neuroscience. She…