Student Spotlight: Anna Levina
The subject of plant breeding and genetics Ph.D. student Anna Levina’s research is familiar to most people—in fact, it’s arguably America’s favorite snack food: potato chips. Levina’s research aims to…
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Student Spotlight: Nick Fesette
What is your area of research? I’m a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA), working mainly in the field of Theatre Arts. In very…
Student Spotlight: Chantal Koechli
What is your area of research? I work to understand the cycling of carbon substrates by soil microbes—our lab strives to understand what microbes cycle different carbon substrates and how…
Student Spotlight: Jiai Zhang
What is your area of research? My area of research is food science, focusing on dairy chemistry and processing, with a minor in marketing. My research is to develop a…
Student Spotlight: Akhiles (Danny) Sindra
Akhiles (Danny) Sindra completed his MPS in Information Science in December 2015. This past fall semester, Sindra created a mobile application called C.U. in Nature to accompany the Nature Rx…
Student Spotlight: MacKenzie Pierce
What is your area of research? I’m a musicologist and my research focuses on a generation of Polish-Jewish musicians born near the turn of the 20th century. I follow this…