Archives: Spotlights
Student Spotlight: Mitchell Ishmael
What is your area of research? I work on understanding the heat capacity of fluid mixtures under supercritical conditions (think fluids at high temperature and pressure). What inspired you to…
Student Spotlight: Amanda Bares
What is your area of research? I am currently a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, with minors in neurobiology and applied and engineering physics…
Student Spotlight: Bill Bedell
What is your area of research? I am a systems biologist. My work typically involves assembling lots of scientific observations about a particular living system and then using an engineering…
Student Spotlight: Annabelle Beaver
What is your area of research? I am a third year Ph.D. student in animal science with minors in epidemiology and microbiology. I am currently researching Johne’s disease, a chronic…
Student Spotlight: Michelle Tong
I understand you completed your degree this January. Congratulations! What was your area of research? I study memory for smells and the molecular mechanisms involved in remembering them. What inspired…
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…