Spotlights

Cornell Engineering likes to feature our new faculty, our incredible students, staff, alumni and teams who do amazing work everyday. 

Jessica Wind

Jessica Wind

"You have everything you could possibly want right here on campus or in Collegetown." Read more

  • Hometown: Madison, N.J.
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering

Heather Reed

"There's a lot of great opportunities to get involved in research with your professors." Read more

  • Hometown: East Taunton, Mass.
  • Civil Engineering
Jeff Will

Jeff Will '10

"People here tend to be more down to earth, and that was a huge deciding factor." Read more

  • Hometown: Marriotsville, Maryland
  • Chemical Engineering

Sonica Li

"One of the great things about Cornell is it's so big you can't stop meeting people. At every meeting and event I always meet someone new." Read more

  • Hometown: Alpharetta, Ga.
  • Computer Science

Jefferson King

"I wanted to do something that would help me help my country. The infrastructure is really devastated because of war." Read more

  • Hometown: Boston, Mass.
  • Civil Engineering

Lena Fitting Kourkoutis

"I am using electron microscopy techniques to study interface phenomenon in complex oxide heterostructures." Read more

  • Hometown: Rostock, Germany
  • Applied Physics

Christopher Hernandez ( 2010 )

Chris Hernandez is interested in the mechanics of bone. The human body’s structural underpinnings are subject to the same mechanical laws as bridges and buildings, but unlike steel or concrete, bone... Read more

Nate Foster ( 2010 )

Nate Foster likes languages. "I did a Master's in the philosophy of language and have always enjoyed thinking about meaning, translation, and semantics," he said. "It's fun to take something... Read more

Christopher Batten ( 2010 )

Christopher Batten almost left the field of computer architecture. "After a couple of years in graduate school at MIT, I started to become disillusioned with my research community. It seemed like most... Read more