Amphibious achiever
CEE senior Theresa Oehmke pursues her interest in interactions between land and water.
Hacking health care
PhD student Andrea Ippolito improves health care through engineering, entrepreneurship, and systems design.
Social networking
Sinan Aral studies peer effects and influence, with an eye toward tackling pressing social problems.
Nanoscale work yields big results
Silvija Gradečak’s nanoscale work creates big-scale results that could transform energy production, storage, and lighting.
Piecing together molecular machines
Newly tenured biologist Iain Cheeseman explores the complex structures that control cell division.
Outside-the-box thinker
Senior Nathan Spielberg uses 3-D printing to build everything from nanoscale chips to houses.
Catching air
Jimmy Gasore is working on Africa’s first high-frequency climate observatory in his native Rwanda.
Faculty highlight: Christopher Schuh
Metallurgist pushes grain boundaries: Nanostructured metal alloys deliver tougher materials, lower costs, and safer outcomes.
At the intersection of real estate and urban economics
Albert Saiz leads research efforts looking at what's really going on in real estate and urban housing markets.
Bilge Yildiz digs deep into surfaces of matter
Research on how surfaces respond under extreme conditions lead to energy advances.
Surface properties command attention
Professor Bilge Yildiz analyzes surfaces of materials to tackle problems as diverse as enabling fuel cells and preventing pipe corrosion.
Martial arts and medical outreach
Senior Christina Lalani applies lessons she learned from karate to global health disparities.
Studying time makes this philosopher tick
Newly tenured Brad Skow studies the philosophy of science and the intricacies of time.
