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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Meagan Sundstrom is a doctoral candidate in physics from Walpole, Massachusetts. She earned her B.S. in mathematics-physics from the University of Connecticut and now studies the role of gender in physics education under the guidance of Natasha Holmes at Cornell.What is your area of research and why is it important?I am in the field of physics education research. I use social network…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Kelly Richmond is a doctoral candidate in performing and media arts from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She earned her B.A. in English drama and theatre and psychology at McGill University and now studies the role of live performance in responding to the climate crisis under the guidance of Sara Warner at Cornell.What is your area of research and why is it important?My research considers the role of…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Katherine Ally Zaslavsky is a doctoral candidate in sociology from Endwell, New York. They earned their B.A. from SUNY Geneseo and now study the value of representation under the guidance of Landon Schnabel and Filiz Garip at Cornell.What is your area of research and why is it important?I study the value of representation. When people think of representation, they usually think of democracy: a…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Jason Ludwig is a doctoral candidate in science and technology studies from Brooklyn, New York. He earned a B.A. in history and M.S. in science, technology, and society at Drexel University and now studies the role of computing in reshaping politics of racial equality under the guidance of Sara Pritchard at Cornell.What is your area of research and why is it important?My dissertation, “Automating…
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Cornell’s 2024 Bouchet Society inductees
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Eight Cornell doctoral candidates, including five connected to A&S, and two postdocs have been inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate. Its network of scholars exemplifies academic and personal…
Nora Brown, Ph.D. ’23, is an alumna of the genetics, genomics, and development doctoral program at Cornell, during which she was co-advised by Mariana Wolfner and Andrew Clark. She is now a postdoc at MIT.
What was your research focus at Cornell?
My thesis work was focused on understanding the function and evolution of a major class of male reproductive proteins called seminal fluid…
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Meagan Sundstrom presents her winning Three Minute Thesis.
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
“I want you to remember a time when you were in a setting where you felt like you didn’t belong. I want you to remember how you felt in that setting, maybe isolated or out of place, and how much you felt like you wanted to continue going back to that setting—probably not much. These feelings are all too familiar for undergraduate women pursuing their studies in science, and in physics…
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Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, Ph.D. ’21, presents during a Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
Eight Cornell research degree students will be advancing to the final round of the 2024 Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT), having competed in a pool of 22 students in the preliminary round. The students and their fields are:
Cátia Dombaxe, biomedical engineering
Amanda Domingues, science and technology studies
Sharada Gopal, biomedical and biological sciences
Viviana Maymi,…
Amber Bal is a doctoral candidate in romance studies from London, England. She earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Oxford and now studies the urban-rural divide in 20th and 21st century French and Francophone literature under the guidance of Imane Terhmina at Cornell.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
My research highlights the varied importance of …
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
The Graduate School welcomed nearly 70 new Dean’s Scholars at a November event to honor students who were nominated and selected for this distinction for their demonstrated commitment to academic excellence and advancing aspects of diversity, access, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the academy and other communities.
At the ceremony, each scholar received a pin with a gold center containing…
Derek Berman is a doctoral student in geological sciences from Los Angeles, California. Berman earned a B.S. in astronomy and a B.S. in geology from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a M.S. in geosciences from Texas Tech University and now studies the geophysical environment of Mars’ Jezero crater under the guidance of Mike Mellon at Cornell.
What is your area of research and why is it…
Megan Driscoll is a doctoral student in chemistry and chemical biology with a focus in polymer chemistry from Chelmsford, Massachusetts. She earned her bachelor’s degree in marine science from the University of Maine and now researches new ways to make and upcycle polymers under the guidance of Brett Fors at Cornell.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
From the cellulose…
Roger William Photography for Cornell University.
From left to right: Xuan Chen, Zachary Ulibarri, Sarah Gilbert, and Samantha Sanft. Not pictured: Alyssa Kaganer and Anusha Shankar.
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Six postdoctoral scholars have been honored with Postdoc Achievement Awards as part of Cornell’s participation in National Postdoc Appreciation Week, celebrated Sept. 18-22.
Cornell currently employs 790 postdoctoral scholars who are appointed across nearly 90 departments where they actively participate in the university’s research, teaching, and extension missions. The Postdoc Achievement…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Eighty-four students have been selected as National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) fellows in 2023, comprising the largest group of new fellows Cornell has ever fielded in one year.
NSF offers approximately 2,000 fellowships per year to research-based master’s and doctoral students pursuing study in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and math…
Ningdong Wang is a doctoral candidate in physics from Jinan, Shandong Province, China. He earned his B.S. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and now works to understand nonlinear beam dynamics in particle accelerators under the guidance of Georg Hoffstaetter at Cornell.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
The focus of my research is understanding nonlinear…
Sarena Tien is a doctoral candidate in romance studies from Richmond, Virginia. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Randolph-Macon College and a master’s at Cornell University and now studies representations of female friendship in literature and film from French-speaking Africa and Asia under the guidance of Imane Terhmina at Cornell.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
I…
Darren Pereira is a doctoral candidate in physics whose summer research focused on ultracold atomic systems at the University of Florence in Florence, Italy.
Describe the location of your summer research.
My work was carried out at the physics department of the University of Florence in Florence, Italy. The major attraction of this physics department for me was its first…
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MyKayla Williamson on Estate Little Princess
Every summer, Cornell graduate students travel the globe to conduct field research. This story is the first in a series about graduate student summer field work. MyKayla Williamson, pictured above, is a master’s student in archaeology whose summer research focused on the archaeological excavation of a historical sugar plantation in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Describe the location of your…
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The A. D. White Reading Room in Uris Library.
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Becoming fluent in another language can be an integral component to humanities students’ studies, but for many, juggling language classes with additional coursework requirements, teaching assistantships, and other responsibilities can prove challenging during the academic year. To support summer learning opportunities, the Graduate School offers Summer Foreign Language Grants that can help…
Elias Beltrán is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature from the Bronx, N.Y. He earned a bachelor’s degree in literature and the humanities from Bard College and now studies Hispanophone Caribbean literature, art, culture and history under the guidance of Natalie Melas, associate professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell.
He talks about his research in this story…
Nic Vigilante is a doctoral student in music with a concentration in music and sound studies from Waterford, New York. They earned a B.A. from Oberlin College and B.M. from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and now study how music, sound, and performance are used to create “unreality” at Cornell under the guidance of Catherine Appert.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
I…
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Some of the recipients of 2023 Distinguished Awards at the Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Awards and Recognition Celebration, May 16 in G10 Biotech
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
The Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement and the Graduate and Professional Student Diversity Council presented the 2023 Distinguished Awards at the Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Awards and Recognition Celebration on May 16 in G10 Biotech.
This annual event recognizes the excellence represented within the graduate community and celebrates students for demonstrating…
Amanda Domingues is a doctoral candidate in science and technology studies with a focus on the anthropology of science from São Paulo, Brazil. She earned a doctorate in political science from the University of São Paulo, a master’s in history and sociology of science and technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from the University of São…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Two Cornell graduate students have been selected as Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Innovation Fellows, which will provide them with a stipend as well as funding for research and other activities to the fellowship year.
Chijioke Onah, a doctoral student in English language and literature, and Nic Vigilante, a doctoral student in music, were two of 45 fellows…
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Susi Varvayanis and Jane Bunker
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Cornell University Graduate School
Cornell University Press and the Graduate School have partnered to provide internship training experiences for graduate students. Incorporating experiential learning is less common in the humanities doctoral training paradigm, which tends to be more of a solo endeavor. To help students acquire more employment-ready skills that will help them in any future career, Jane Bunker, director of Cornell…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Eight Cornell doctoral candidates and two postdocs have been selected for induction into the Cornell chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate. Its network of scholars exemplifies academic and personal excellence, character,…
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3MT 2019 winners (from left): Pamela Meyerhofer (People’s Choice), Teddy Yesudasan (1st place), and Shao-Pei Chou (2nd place).
Eight Cornell doctoral students will be advancing to the final round of the 2023 Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT). The students and their fields are:
Fangming Cui, psychology
Sharada Gopal, biological and biomedical sciences
Yuexing Hao, design and environmental analysis
Kimberly Hochstedler, statistics
Lidia Komondy, entomology
Sangwoo Park, biophysics
Susannah Sharpless,…
Angie Torres-Beltran is a doctoral candidate in government from central Florida. She earned her B.A. in international and global studies at the University of Central Florida and now studies how women’s political participation is influenced by gender-based violence and interactions with state institutions under the guidance of Sabrina Karim and Gustavo Flores-Macías at Cornell.
What is your…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Fifty-five Cornell graduate students have been selected as 2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) fellows. These new fellows join Cornell’s community of over 200 current fellows.
The NSF offers approximately 2,000 fellowships per year to research-based master’s and doctoral students pursuing study in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and…
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postdoctoral scholars honored with Postdoc Achievement Awards
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Seven postdoctoral scholars have been honored with Postdoc Achievement Awards as part of Cornell’s participation in National Postdoc Appreciation Week, celebrated Sept. 19-23.
The awards and recipients are:
Achievement Award for Excellence in Community Engagement: Elizabeth Riley (psychology)
Achievement Award for Excellence in Leadership: Melanie Smee (microbiology) and Eileen…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Dory Peters and Joseph Miranda have been selected to receive 2022 Ford Foundation Fellowships. Peters, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering, received a predoctoral competition fellowship, and Miranda, a doctoral candidate in English language and literature, received a dissertation competition fellowship.
Honorable mentions were awarded to nine additional Cornell graduate students:…
Sophia Veltfort, M.F.A. ’20, is a doctoral candidate in English language and literature from New York City. She attended Yale University as an undergraduate and now studies the representations of speech and thought in 20th-century fiction.
What is your area of research or scholarship and why is it important?
I am currently completing my first novel and story collection, which emerged from…
Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei is a doctoral candidate in music from Denton, Texas. He attended the University of North Texas as an undergraduate and now studies music composition with a focus on time malleability.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
In my research and practice, I am interested in time malleability: the ways that our experience of time ebbs and flows. I love…
Yongjian Tang is a doctoral candidate in physics from Guangdong, China. After attending Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as an undergraduate, he chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to the physics faculty, facilities, and collaborative atmosphere. Yongjian Tang is a recipient of a 2022 Wu Scholarship.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
I’m doing…
Michael Lee is a master of fine arts student in creative writing with a concentration in poetry from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota as an undergraduate and now studies the interrelated histories of European colonialism and industrial warfare.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
Weeks before WWI began, Karl Kraus declared Austria a …
Germán Reyes is a doctoral candidate in economics from La Plata, Argentina. He attended the Universidad Nacional de La Plata as an undergraduate and now studies why some students perform better than others on standardized exams and how test-score gaps eventually lead to income inequality.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
In many countries, standardized exams are used…
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Fishermen on Lake Victoria in Uganda
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Doctoral students Rafid Bendimerad and Angela Nankabirwa have been selected to receive 2022 Africa Fund Fellowships.
The Africa Fund Fellowship provides one or two semesters of a stipend, full tuition, and Cornell individual student health insurance to doctoral applicants who are citizens of an African country and not permanent residents of the U.S.
Nankabirwa, a doctoral student in ecology…
Esther Kondo Heller is a master of fine arts student in creative writing with a concentration in poetry. She attended Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany as an undergraduate and now studies how stories, histories, and emotion are expressed using sound, images, and performance.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
In my poetry, I explore how stories/histories are…
Tessy Schlosser is a doctoral candidate in government from Mexico City, Mexico. She earned her bachelor’s degree at CIDE in Mexico City and a master’s degree at the University of Chicago and now studies the political thought of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
What is your area of research and what is its impact?
I am working on the political thought of poet, philosopher, nun and social critic…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
The Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement and the Graduate and Professional Student Diversity Council presented the 2022 Distinguished Awards at the Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Awards and Recognition Celebration on May 12 in G10 Biotech.
This annual event recognizes the excellence represented within the graduate community and celebrates…
Vaibhav Sharma is a doctoral candidate in physics from Delhi, India. He attended Delhi Technological University for his bachelor’s degree and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay for his master’s degree and now studies the quantum mechanical behavior of ultracold atoms.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
My research focuses on trying to understand the quantum…
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The National Institute of Educational Studies in Brazil
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
The Graduate School awarded over 100 Research Travel Grants totaling $204,196 in 2021-22, which provide financial support for research degree students to conduct thesis or dissertation research away from campus. With a special round of funding in addition to standard fall and spring rounds, this was the largest group of Research Travel Grants awarded since the pandemic began interrupting travel.
…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
“So, this is a coin from 12th century Sri Lanka. And, like many coins, it’s inscribed with the name of the monarch who commissioned it,” began Bruno Shirley, a doctoral candidate in Asian literature, religion, and culture at the seventh annual Cornell University Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
Alongside seven other finalists, Shirley presented his dissertation research in just three…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
This year’s Proposal, Thesis, and Dissertation Writing Boot Camp went virtual and broke records. Nearly 400 writers from 50 institutions joined this year’s immersive Boot Camp to develop productive writing habits in a supportive environment. The previous virtual attendance record was set with over 300 students attending 2021 Writing Boot Camp; the record for in-person Boot Camp was in 2019 with…
2022 Wu Scholarship recipients. Top row, left to right: Shiping Cao, Yue Deng, and Zihan Hu. Bottom row, left to right: Hui Ji, Yubo Su, Yongjian Tang, and Hui Zhou. Not pictured: Shan-Chi Hsieh.
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Eight graduate students were awarded 2022 Hsien and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarships. These awards provide recipients with funds to help with any aspect of doctoral study, from research expenses to living expenses.
This year’s recipients are: Shiping Cao, mathematics; Yue Deng, materials science and engineering; Shan-Chi Hsieh, microbiology; Zihan Hu, economics; Hui Ji, genetics, genomics, and…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Career development offices benefit from collaborations and network development with industry employers, a new study finds.
The study, “Using Stakeholder Insights to Enhance Engagement in Ph.D. Professional Development,” published January 27 in PLOS ONE.
A team of researchers including Susi Varvayanis, executive director of the Graduate School’s Careers Beyond Academia, and Conrad Smart,…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Humanities doctoral students begin their programs with an area of interest. This focus narrows as dissertation research progresses until, by the end of a doctoral program, it narrows to the point that students see only a path to a faculty or research career. To broaden their view, the Graduate School’s Careers Beyond Academia has expanded its programs to illuminate many more possible…
David Esparza is a doctoral candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB) from El Paso, Texas. After attending the University of Texas at El Paso as an undergraduate, he chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to its commitment to evidence-based teaching methods and the EEB field’s culture.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
I am a biology education researcher…
Ben Fried is a doctoral candidate in English language and literature from Ottawa, Canada. After earning his undergraduate degree at McGill University, he chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to the reputation of its field of English language and literature.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
I study the networks linking writers, readers, and publishing…
Lissette Lorenz is a doctoral candidate in science and technology studies from Miami, Florida. After attending Oberlin College in Ohio as an undergraduate, she chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to the field of science and technology studies’ alignment with her research style and themes.
What is your area of research and why is it important?
I study the social and ecological…
