Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship

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Dave Burbank
Dave Burbank
Literature, Classics & Language
History & Culture
Poets, Artists, Game Makers, and New Media
Silent films, talkies, the internet—these media transitions have inspired poets, artists, and video game creators to push the limits of their art.
By
Jackie Swift

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Dave Burbank
Dave Burbank
Genetics & Genome Science
Bacteria and Their Hosts, Good Companions
Chih-chun Lin—a Cornell inaugural Presidential Postdoc—is fast-tracking microbe-host research, probing beneficial relationships such as gut-bacteria.
By
Jackie Swift

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Beatrice Jin
Beatrice Jin
Public Policy
Juxtaposed—Mental Health, Criminal Justice
Amalgamating homelessness, poverty, mental illness, and the criminal justice system, Jessica Cooper asks, what is social justice?
By
Jackie Swift

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Dave Burbank
Dave Burbank
Public Policy
Interpreting Public Opinion
What are voters really advocating for or against when they go to the polls? How do they really want their tax dollars spent? Why?
By
Jackie Swift

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Dave Burbank
Dave Burbank
Chemical Sciences
Plastics, Can’t Get Away from Using Them
If plastics are a mainstay of our lives—even with the negative impact on the environment and our health—new techniques for making them are paramount.
By
Jackie Swift
All Fellows
"I’m excited that I will be initiating collaborations to open up new questions and new fields.”

Vivekinan L. Ashok

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

Andrew Campana

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

Steve Choi

Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences

Research Group:
Gordon Stacey; Michael Niemack

Research: Precision Cosmology

Previous Affiliation: PhD, Princeton University

Mackenzie Cooley

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

Jessica Cooper

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

Tyler Coverdale

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Research Group:
Anurag Agrawal

Research: Evolutionary Tradeoffs in Biodiversity

Previous Affiliation: PhD, Princeton University

Chih-chun Lin

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

Erin Stache

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

Rong Ye

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