Category: Student Features

Jessamine Kuehn

When Jessamine couldn't find an existing program to participate in as a graduate student mentor, she created one.

Ryan Martinez

Ryan has an impressive list of accomplishments as a fifth year PhD student, all driven by a love for his work.

Paloma Frautschi

Paloma overcame many obstacles to get to graduate school, and stands out for her commitment and drive.

Sehar Virani

Sehar's dedication and enthusiasm keep collaborations and research projects about health disparities and global oncology moving forward.

Carlos A. Huang-Zhu

Carlos is a PhD candidate whose research informs biomedical applications and chemical production. His doctoral research uses molecular dynamics simulations to model interactions between inorganic nanoparticles and model biological membranes.

PhD student Zhewen Pan receives Google PhD Fellowship in Computer Architecture

Pan researches efficient computer architecture, including sustainable computing, in the lab of Joshua San Miguel, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Some of her recent projects include working on improving data compression to create more efficient memory and storage without sacrificing performance.

Oluwatobi (Tobi) Idowu

Tobi’s research interests include African popular culture, digital media, and global Black literatures.

Sarah Tolbert

Sarah’s PhD research focuses on how to increase local communities’ capacity for forest conservation in the DRC.

Charles Smith

Charles is a PhD student in the joint PhD program in Finance and Economics at the Wisconsin School of Business whose research lies at the intersection of finance and industrial organization.

Elise Chavez

Elise works on experiments using data from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector in the Large Hadron Collider, probing the laws of physics to find the interesting and unexpected.