How do bacteria continue to evade death by antibiotics? Guillaume Lambert applies physics to the task of discovering how. A physicist by training, Lambert uses his physicist’s tool kit to pursue... Read more
What’s Next in Computing? Exploring the Possibilities What do pharmaceutical drugs, rechargeable batteries, and solar cells have in common? They share the potential to reap great benefits in design... Read more
The Microscopy Society of America (MSA) Distinguished Scientist Award is presented to a preeminent senior scientist with a longstanding record of achievement during their career in the field of... Read more
Donald M. Tennant, B.S. ’73, is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and recently retired Director of Operations at Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF). At CNF, his efforts focused on leading the... Read more
Peter McMahon joined the faculty of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics (AEP) at Cornell as an assistant professor in the summer of 2019. McMahon’s research focuses on the physics of... Read more
by Jackie Swift Nothing about Craig J. Fennie, Applied and Engineering Physics, is predictable or routine. “I stumble into things,” he says with a rueful smile. “There’s never a plan.” Yet Fennie’s... Read more
Najva Akbari is on her way to becoming an optics expert who applies multi-photon microscopy to biological systems. Akbari is a doctoral student in Professor Chris Xu’s research group at Cornell. “I... Read more
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
