Spotlights: CBE

Aravind Natarajan Ph.D. '19 is a microbiologist working with Professor Matthew DeLisa to engineer Escherichia coli, a common bacterial strain, to produce therapeutically valuable glycoproteins... Read more

Joseph (Joey) Brown Ph.D. '19, believes researchers are often tasked with evaluating the potential of specific ideas in a long-term outlook for society. Thus, any researcher is best paired with... Read more

Colleen Lawlor is a Ph.D. student working in Professor Jim Engstrom's research group. Her work utilizes atomic layer deposition (ALD), a technique in which a substrate is exposed to precursor gases... Read more

By the time Ning Zhao, Ph.D. student in Systems Engineering at Cornell, has his doctorate, he may know more about New York State’s power generation, storage, and delivery capabilities than any other... Read more

Ankita Mukhtyar of the Escobedo Lab: "I found Cornell to be flexible and interdisciplinary which gave me the freedom to study what I found interesting." Ankita has always been very focused on the... Read more

“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

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

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

Christine Artim, Alabi Group Christine will travel to Lucca, Italy to attend the Gordon Research Conference and Symposium on Antimicrobial Peptides. Carolyn Shurer, Paszek Group Carolyn will travel to... Read more

“With its strong commitment to sustainability, I feel fortunate to be a part of CORNELL,” Bora says. Raaj is from Pune, India where he first learned to appreciate the environment from a key instructor... Read more