Archives: Spotlights
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…
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…
Student Spotlight: Whitten Overby
What is your area of research? I write history, theory, and criticism about the relationships between media—primarily film and television—the built environment, identity, and politics. My research focuses on how,…
Student Spotlight: Hui Jing
What is your area of research? The Sir2 (silencing information regulator 2) family of enzymes, or sirtuins, were originally known as nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent protein lysine deacetylase. Mammals have…
Student Spotlight: Gabrielle Borenstein
In summer 2016, Gabrielle Borenstein was awarded the prestigious and competitive Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship, which was established to support graduate students with outstanding character and ability who hold promise for achievement…
Student Spotlight: David Agyeman-Budu
What is your area of research? My area of research is developing an x-ray scanning probe technique called confocal x-ray fluorescence (CXRF) microscopy at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). What…