Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship
ronge ye-085_edit.jpg
Andrew_Campana_017_edit.jpg
Chih-Chun Lin-080_edit.jpg
Vivek_Ashok_016_edit.jpg
20180904-113557_edit.jpg
Government, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Peter Enns
Research: Ashok examines factors that inform economic policy preferences and support for particular candidates with a focus on perceptions of inequality.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Yale University
Research Story: Interpreting Public Opinion
Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Brett de Bary
Research: Campana studies creative engagements with emerging technologies in modern and contemporary Japanese literature and media, with an emphasis on poetry, digital media, and disability.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Harvard University
Research Story: Poets, Artists, Game Makers, and New Media
Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Gordon Stacey; Michael Niemack
Research: Currently working with the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope-prime and the Simons Observatory projects, Choi specializes in precision cosmology, including cosmic inflation, dark energy, and the Epoch of Reionization.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Princeton University
Research Story: Telescopes to Help Decode the Cosmos
History, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Peter R. Dear
Research: Cooley explores the intertwining of human, animal, and environmental history, with an emphasis on the topic, race—how it evolved from a descriptor for controlled animal progeny to a human phenotype categorization.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Stanford University
Research Story: Humans, Animals, Race, History—Intertwined
Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences; Cornell Law School
Research: Cooper studies people across power divides in social services institutions.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Princeton University
Research Story: Juxtaposed—Mental Health, Criminal Justice
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Research Group:
Anurag Agrawal
Research: Coverdale examines evolutionary tradeoffs in biodiversity with a focus on the defensive strategies of plants.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Princeton University
Research Story: How Plants Defend Themselves—Over Time
Molecular Biology and Genetics, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Andrew G. Clark
Research: Lin studies microbe-host interactions, concentrating on the beneficial relationships between microbe and host, including the gut-bacteria partnership.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Research Story: Bacteria and Their Hosts, Good Companions
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Geoffrey Coates; Brett Fors
Research: Stache concentrates on innovative synthesis techniques for the creation of new polyketones and biodegradable polymers.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Colorado State University
Research Story: Plastics, Can’t Get Away from Using Them
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Peng Chen
Research: Rong Ye, also known as Rocky, investigates catalysis, with emphasis on developing techniques for seeing single particles in action.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Research Story: Catalysis—Focusing in to See the Action