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Welcome Itai Gurvich ( 2016 )

Itai Gurvich has joined the faculty of Cornell Tech as an associate professor of operations research and information engineering. Gurvich comes to Cornell after eight years on the faculty at... Read more

Welcome Fengqi You ( 2016 )

Fengqi You has joined the faculty of the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) at Cornell. You has been named the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor. He is... Read more

Welcome Jeffrey Varner ( 2016 )

Jeffrey Varner, professor in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell (CBE), would not describe himself as artistic. “My mom has become a painter as she... Read more

Peter DelNero

Peter DelNero began his graduate studies in the Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Cornell in 2011. He hopes to earn his Ph.D. in August of 2017. So Read more

  • Hometown: Overland Park, Kansas
  • BME

Welcome Ilana Brito ( 2016 )

The more researchers look closely at humans, the more they discover that we are not alone. In fact, we play host to an entire biome of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic microorganisms. The study of... Read more

Welcome Adrian Sampson ( 2016 )

Brito grew up on Long Island, where her mother was a civil engineer who maintained the control tower and all facilities at LaGuardia Airport. (Her elementary school classmates loved this because they... Read more

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Welcome Guillaume Lambert ( 2016 )

While Guillaume Lambert was studying for his B.S. in Physics at McGill University in Montreal he had a summer job that gave him his first opportunity to do some actual applied physics work. “I... Read more

Welcome Nelly Andarawis-Puri ( 2016 )

Nelly Andarawis-Puri’s work in tendon research is in the sweet spot where basic mechanics and clinical relevance overlap completely. Andarawis-Puri, who is a Clare Booth Luce Assistant Professor of... Read more