Spotlights

We hear about scientific advancements all the time, but science is a process driven by people, and we rarely hear about the stories behind these discoveries. Science Blender brings you those stories.

Hunter Adams, fourth year Ph.D. student in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell, really likes hardware. “There is something indisputable about hardware,” says Adams. “You can run...

Even after earning his undergraduate degree in software engineering from Nankai University, Cheng Zhang did not think he would ever go on to be a professor anywhere. Instead, he viewed his computer...

When Nicholas Abbott was finishing up his undergraduate chemical engineering degree at Adelaide University in Australia, he knew he wanted to go abroad for his graduate studies. “At that time,” says...

Zhiting Tian has joined the faculty of Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as the Eugene A. Leinroth Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow. Tian specializes in nanoscale thermal...

It wasn’t until Austin Benson was earning his Ph.D. in computational and mathematical engineering at Stanford University that he fully realized the power of mathematics to affect the world. “When I...

While Rene Kizilcec was earning his undergraduate degree in philosophy and economics from University College London (UCL) he made a living creating websites for e-commerce customers. “The more sites I...

Researchers from over a dozen countries, including Brazil, China, India, Pakistan and South Africa gathered at Cornell for “Our Microbes, Our Global Health."

Engineer, businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist David A. Duffield ’62, MBA ’64, spoke at Cornell University and was presented with the inaugural Cornell Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award on Tuesday, Sept. 4, at 4 p.m. in 101 Phillips Hall Auditorium.

Andrej Singer, assistant professor, discovers the cause of voltage fade in a promising class of battery cathode materials.