Spotlights
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What goes on in there? A visit to Cornell’s Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility
Often when Hollywood directors want to convey the fact that something very scientific is happening, they will dress the actors in white suits that cover them head to toe—including booties, gloves, and... Read more
Sophia Rocco: Hoping to make the world a better place through a potential renewable energy source
When she was looking at graduate schools, physics major Sophia Rocco, thought she would be in a materials science program bridging her interests in electricity and magnetism and novel materials for... Read more
Paxton Thedford
Paxton Thedford grew up in Kerrville, Texas and earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. When it was time to decide on a graduate program, Cornell was his clear... Read more
- Hometown: Kerrville, TX
- Ph.D. in CBE
Cornell's connections to NYC
Though perched 200 miles away far above Cayuga’s waters, Cornell has played an outsized role in New York City’s landscape of iconic people, places and things over the years. More than 50,000... Read more
Cornell Engineering undergraduate makes a habit of giving back
Cornell Engineering undergraduate Haley Antoine ’19 is always looking for ways to give back. “Both of my parents modeled the idea of giving back all the time. My dad is in the Navy and my mom put her... Read more
Meet the Millers, a Cornell Engineering father-daughter team
By Chris Dawson If you are an engineering major at Cornell, there will be times that are hard. Maybe for you it’s the Statics and Mechanics of Solids class. Or it could be Introductory Quantum... Read more
Ezgi Demirayak
Ezgi combined her CS background with Engineering Management to achieve exciting opportunities Read more
- Hometown: Istanbul, Turkey
- M.Eng., Engineering Management
Amanda Bares
For Amanda Bares’ first summer job after high school she cleaned laser components at the company where her father worked as an electrical engineer. Now, as a Ph.D. student in Cornell’s Nancy E. and... Read more
- BME
Welcome Francesco Monticone ( 2017 )
Francesco Monticone of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Cornell likes to work in the realm of theory. “The best possible project for me,” says Monticone, “would start with a... Read more