Spotlights

“I’m proud of CORNELL CHEME’s welcoming and inclusive environment.” Zhu was born and raised in Suzhou, China. Growing up, she would listen to her dad talk about his work at a chemical company. This... Read more

"BME allows you to have a broad variety of experience and leverage that interdisciplinary experience in solving problems that face the field of medicine." Read more

"[Cornell is] an environment [focusing] on collaborative work that also encourages individual growth and development." Read more

"I was impressed with all the female students I saw/met, which really drew me in!" Read more

Some people know what they want to do for a living from a young age. When they are adults and you ask them, their answer starts with some variant of the phrase, “For as long as I can remember, I have... Read more

by Jackie Swift Nothing about Craig J. Fennie, Applied and Engineering Physics, is predictable or routine. “I stumble into things,” he says with a rueful smile. “There’s never a plan.” Yet Fennie’s... Read more

The Austin Hooey Graduate Research Excellence Recognition Award is the highest award given to a graduate student. It recognizes outstanding contributions to scholarship and research toward a Ph.D. and... Read more

Pamela Badian-Pessot’s parents met while they were earning graduate degrees at Stanford University. It may be because of this that Badian-Pessot thought of graduate school the way many people think of... Read more

Irwin Jacobs to receive Distinguished Alumni Award Engineer, entrepreneur, innovator and philanthropist Irwin Jacobs '54, BEE ’56, will speak at Cornell and be presented with the Cornell Engineering... Read more

Coming from Iceland, Arna made her way to the US to work on science useful for geothermal operations back home. Here she developed a new method to extract lithium out of geothermal wastewater. We’ll... Read more