Spotlights: AEP

Ivan Temnykh, AEP '08

Ivan Temnykh AEP '08: Follow your passion

Ivan Temnykh, AEP '08, pursues his passion using knowledge gained as an engineering physics major A: Your career path after Cornell took an interesting turn. Please tell us about it. A: After... Read more

Kara Zielinski (left) and Lois Pollack (right) align a gas dynamic virtual nozzle stream to a target.

Kara Zielinski: Using physics to understand life

Kara Zielinski is a 4th-year Ph.D. student who is working to better understand life’s essential processes by developing technology to capture interactions between biological molecules. She is a member... Read more

  • Applied and Engineering Physics
Yandong Li in the lab

Yandong Li

Yandong Li is a Ph.D. student in Prof. Gennady Shvets’ group who focuses on topological photonics, a new field that is inspired by condensed-matter physics and explores how to robustly control the... Read more

  • Hometown: Nanjing, China
  • Applied and Engineering Physics
Yi-Hao Chen in the lab.

Yi-Hao Chen

Winner of the Emerging Researcher Best Paper Prize from JOSA B, a prize that recognizes "a student or early-career researcher (within five years of earning their highest degree) who is the first author of a paper that a committee of JOSA B editors judges to be outstanding," Yi-Hao Chen will receive his award in October 2022. Read more

  • Hometown: Chiayi city, Taiwan
  • Applied and Engineering Physics
Graduating class of 2022

Congratulations 2022 Graduates!

Congratulations to our graduating class of 2022! View and download graduation day photos taken by our staff photographer on our Flickr site , or purchase this photo (and others) taken by our... Read more

Zui Tao, Ph.D. student in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics

Meet Zui Tao

When Zui Tao was in elementary school in Hefei, China she was obsessed with magic. She practiced tricks every day and performed a magic show each year at her school’s New Year Festival. But that all... Read more