Spotlights

Cornell Engineering likes to feature our new faculty, our incredible students, staff, alumni and teams who do amazing work everyday. 

Azian Akpan

Throughout high school, Azian Akpan had a run-of-the -mill class load, until an environmental science class piqued her interest. Now at Cornell, her goal is to study environmental engineering, then... Read more

  • Hometown: East Longmeadow, Mass.
  • CEE

VIDEO: 'Sit With Me'

Cornell University, in partnership with Bloomberg, brought an iconic 'Sit With Me' red chair onto campus and welcomed participants to sit and share their story. ' Sit With Me' exists to inspire women... Read more

Deborah Estrin ( 2012 )

It was CornellNYC Tech that lured Deborah Estrin east from California. Estrin was the founding director of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, funded by the National Science Foundation, and a... Read more

Bring it Forward

Speak Out Against Bias and Report It Alan Zehnder, associate dean for diversity and faculty development and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and Sara Xayarath Hernández, director of... Read more

Nnamdi Okoye

Civil Engineering Junior Nnamdi Okoye discusses how his construction site visits gave more purpose to his Engineering degree. Read more

  • Hometown: Brentwood, CA
  • Civil Engineering

Ashley Spear

Ashley Spear is a Ph.D student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering School, and is currently working at NASA. Read more

  • Hometown: Cheyenne, Wyoming
  • Structural Engineering