You could excuse Abigail Poteshman for taking a meandering path during her scientific career. While still in high school, she joined her first lab to conduct cancer cell experiments. Now, on the verge ...

A Georgia Tech fellow models renewable energy and other problems with ever-changing unknowns. Real-world modeling problems are rife with uncertainty and complicated interactions. To maximize profits, ...

Environmental scientist Marianne Cowherd grew up in Michigan and loved snow. “My favorite thing was having school cancelled and going sledding,” she says. “But I never thought of snow as a water ...

Rahul Sahay’s quantum mechanics research started at his undergraduate school, the University of California, Berkeley. For his final project, working with DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship ...

A Montana State fellow charts a path from physics and modeling to a form of pure math called category theory. Alex Ballow works as a translator, not of human tongues but of the languages of math and ...

A Caltech fellowship recipient works on the physics underlying turbulence, or the chaotic gain of energy when fluids move in unpredictable ways. Victor Zendejas Lopez worked on cars before he realized ...

Materials scientist Luis Rangel DaCosta is applying machine learning methods to speed analyzing high-resolution images. The work fits Rangel DaCosta’s quest to understand puzzling phenomena. “When ...

A Cornell University fellowship recipient works on methods for ensuring software functions as expected. Computers are embedded in almost all aspects of daily life, including medical and defense ...

A UT Austin-based fellow blends physics and advanced computing to reveal cosmic rays’ role in stellar events. Like many aspiring astronomers, a young Margot Fitz Axen grew even more fascinated by the ...

Engineering Ph.D. student Justin Porter is changing the nuts and bolts of mechanical engineering, literally — simulating the friction of vibrations that lead to bolt wear, tear and failure. The Rice ...

When Emily de Jong arrived at Caltech for her Ph.D. in 2019, she’d done internships in the oil industry and thought that she might pursue research modeling fluids in energy or the environment. Then ...

When Mary-Francis LaPorte was growing up in Nebraska, she was surrounded by corn. Now as a quantitative geneticist and graduate student at University of California, Davis, she is studying crop traits ...