Spotlights

How do insects fly? How are the physical aspects of flying connected to the insect's neural circuitry? How do scientists use this information?

Angela Zhou is a doctoral student at Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE). She is based in New York City and works with her advisor, Assistant Professor Nathan...

Cornell Micro-g is a project team of students who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of space technology. Working in coordination with NASA, the team designs and develops tools to aid in...

Mahsa Shoaran was born into a family of medical doctors. Through most of her early schooling, she believed she was on that same path toward an M.D. degree. But then came higher level math and physics...

When Hugh Bullen was in the seventh grade a hurricane hit his home and changed his life. Before Hurricane Ivan damaged more than 90% of the homes on his home island of Grenada, Bullen was generally...

The do-it-yourself attitude runs deep in Lois Pollack. When she was a child, her physicist father encouraged her to build simple electronic circuits or to work alongside him in his wood shop. “Growing...

Brenda Dietrich has joined the faculty of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell as the Arthur and Helen Geoffrion Professor of Practice. Dietrich comes to...

Nikolaos Bouklas has joined the faculty of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell. Bouklas most recently held a post-doctoral researcher position at the Institute of...

There were signs early in Mahdi Esmaily’s life that he might end up a mechanical engineer. Growing up in Tehran, Iran, Esmaily’s neighborhood often had buildings under construction. “It was always fun...

When Jie Shan was growing up in Zhejiang Province in China’s southeast, she did not imagine her future held a career in physics. “I always liked math and chemistry and physics when I was in high...