Spotlights: AEP

When Berit Goodge came to Cornell to earn her Ph.D. in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics (AEP), she was simply following the roadmap she’d laid out in 4th grade. “I was a pretty precocious... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

Katherine is a member of the Kourkoutis Group, working on electron microscopy techniques to image biological specimens, especially whole cells, with nanometer resolution. Read more

Often when Hollywood directors want to convey the fact that something very scientific is happening, they will dress the actors in white suits that cover them head to toe—including booties, gloves, and... Read more

Holtz became interested in the Energy Materials Center at Cornell and the collaborative environment that was happening across Cornell sciences and engineering. Read more

Bartell is a Ph.D. candidate in the Fuchs Group Read more

These undergraduate sisters are investigating the nanoscale and below Read more

Gennady Shvets started his postsecondary education as an undergraduate student at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and then obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts... Read more

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