Spotlights

"There's a lot of great opportunities to get involved in research with your professors." Read more

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"People here tend to be more down to earth, and that was a huge deciding factor." Read more

"One of the great things about Cornell is it's so big you can't stop meeting people. At every meeting and event I always meet someone new." Read more

"I wanted to do something that would help me help my country. The infrastructure is really devastated because of war." Read more

"I am using electron microscopy techniques to study interface phenomenon in complex oxide heterostructures." Read more

Chris Hernandez is interested in the mechanics of bone. The human body’s structural underpinnings are subject to the same mechanical laws as bridges and buildings, but unlike steel or concrete, bone... Read more

Nate Foster likes languages. "I did a Master's in the philosophy of language and have always enjoyed thinking about meaning, translation, and semantics," he said. "It's fun to take something... Read more

Christopher Batten almost left the field of computer architecture. "After a couple of years in graduate school at MIT, I started to become disillusioned with my research community. It seemed like most... Read more

"I wanted to do something about the problems that we're having in our society today." Read more