Xiangkun Elvis Cao, a Ph.D. candidate in the Sibley School’s Erickson Lab, shares his experience of successfully navigating his way through hardship from rural China as a first-generation college student to landing on Forbes 30 Under 30 for North America. He discusses the shared challenges first-generation students and underrepresented minorities in academia face: economic and social burden, exclusion, discrimination, and lack of access to information and mentoring.
Read more in his opinion piece “Navigating My Way as a First-Generation Student,” published online in the journal Matter.
The “Sibley 150” event will include a keynote delivered by Sibley School alum Bill Nye ’77; a panel discussion on the future of mechanical and aerospace engineering featuring Swati Mohan ’04, MLS... Read more about Sibley 150 to celebrate the past, present, and future of mechanical engineering at Cornell
Two early-career scientists at Cornell have been awarded Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellowships: Lígia Fonseca Coelho, a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Astronomy in the College of... Read more about Two Cornell scientists chosen for 51 Pegasi b Fellowships, including MAE's Zach Ulibarri
The Kessler Fellows program welcomed 20 students to its 2024 cohort. The students will spend their spring semester sharpening entrepreneurial skills while preparing for a fully funded summer... Read more about Cornell introduces its 2024 Kessler Fellows cohort
