Spotlights

One of the undeniable pleasures of life in the Finger Lakes region of New York is sitting on a deck at one of the many wineries that line the shores of Seneca and Cayuga Lakes, sipping a cold Riesling... Read more

By Erin Philipson Cornell’s Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) has been making a concerted effort to recruit a larger and more diverse pool of applicants for both the geological and atmospheric... Read more

From Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee’s hometown of Silchar in the northeastern state of Assam, India to the university where he earned his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering in Calicut in the far... Read more

Patrick Wick, teaching support specialist in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, won the 2021 Academic Achievement Award from the Cornell Engineering Alumni Association. Wick... Read more

Jacob Nixon ’22 has been interested in biomechanics since he was in middle school – namely the coordinated motion and physical interaction of different parts of the body, such as muscles and bones... Read more

Now a senior associate in the Biomedical Engineering & Sciences Practice at Exponent, Inc., Ph.D. alum Derek Holyoak's work involves a mix of proactive biomedical research/testing and reactive scientific litigation. Read more

When Zui Tao was in elementary school in Hefei, China she was obsessed with magic. She practiced tricks every day and performed a magic show each year at her school’s New Year Festival. But that all... Read more

Kevin Lo ’13, M.Eng. '14, is one of the tiny percentage of humans who can say that they have touched an object that is now on the surface of Mars. “Having something like the Mars 2020 mission that I... Read more

By Erin Philipson When Nicole Sharp ’09 started her fluid mechanics blog, FYFD, she never imagined the attention she would garner and certainly didn’t foresee her career taking the path that it did... Read more

After first arriving at Cornell as a freshman, Kayla Keriazes ’21 wasn’t sure whether she wanted to major in mechanical or electrical engineering. But after being mesmerized by the mechanically based... Read more