Spotlights: AEP

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

Jeffrey Moses wants to look at things that can barely be seen; specifically, events that happen in under a trillionth of a second. This timescale, called a femtosecond, and the phenomena that occur... Read more

Breaking the rules to push the limits of imagination To play music, you need an instrument, right? You can pluck a string or vibrate a reed or strike a surface or force air through an opening. But... Read more