Tag Archive | graduate students

Welcome to Francisco Candido!

First year MAE graduate student Francisco Candido has officially joined the MMD lab! Francisco earned his undergraduate degree at San Diego State and has already received an NSF Graduate Research fellowship and a Cornell Sloan Fellowship. Francisco will begin his PhD research working on composites in collaboration with the Shepherd group.

New.MECH 2014

This past weekend half the MMD lab drove out to western Massachusetts for the 1 day annual mechanics conference New.MECH hosted this year by UMass Amherst. Graduate student Naigeng Chen presented his experimental work on non-wovens.

USNCTAM 2014

The MMD lab went to the winter Olympics of mechanics conferences last week – The United States National Congress on Theoretical & Applied Mechanics held in Lansing, MI. Held every four years in a different US city, this conference brings together theory oriented mechanicians from both the solids and fluids communities. Graduate students Meenakshi Sundaram […]

Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source Annual Users Meeting 2014

CHESS’s annual users meeting is taking place this week. Yesterday graduate student Naigeng Chen showed off his x-ray diffraction and computed tomography experiments at the poster session. Prof Silberstein was elected as one of the three incoming members of the user executive committee.