Princess Merenini, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry, was one of the 2019 Pei Wang Fellowship award recipients. The Pei Wang Fellowship honors the late Pei Wang (Ph.D. 1952, chemistry) by gifting this award to honorable graduate students at UW–Madison. Merenini is an international student from Nigeria. She moved to the United States in 2016 to pursue her undergraduate education at Savannah State University (SSU). Growing up in Nigeria, Merenini was taught that there were only four “prestigious” career paths: medicine, law, engineering and pharmacy.
Grad Student Spotlight
Grad Spotlight: Nicholas M. Riley
Nicholas M. Riley is a graduate student from Louisville, KY, who attended the University of South Carolina as an undergraduate. He currently works with the Coon Research Group. Tell us about your research. My graduate research …
Summer Research Snapshot: Graduate Student Steven Chapman
The weather in Madison is slowly cooling down, undergraduates are moving in, and the first football game of the season is one week away. We are nearing the end of summertime in Madison. Today marks …
Summer Research Snapshot: Graduate Student Kevin Garcia
Today is the second of our four-part series highlighting research being conducted during the summer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kevin Garcia is a graduate student finishing his first year …
Summer Research Snapshot: Graduate Student Taylor Evans
This week is our third of four interviews that provide a snapshot of research and life in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry during summer. Taylor Evans is a rising fourth-year chemistry graduate student …
Summer Research Snapshot: Graduate Student Leslie Rank
When you imagine Madison in the summer, it’s easy to think of a beautiful sunset at the Terrace, a picnic at Concerts on the Square, or a leisurely morning at the Dane County Farmers’ Market, …
Milton Repollet-Pedrosa (Ph.D. 2013)
When Milton Repollet-Pedrosa, from Gurabo, Puerto Rico, began his doctorate in 2008, his Ph.D. in materials chemistry, was a relatively new track within the department. Since then, he has put in countless hours outside of …
Alison Wendlandt (Ph.D. 2015)
Breakfast with scientists who changed the world, lunch with leading researchers, and evening drinks with colleagues from other continents. That was what the schedule looked like for Alison Wendlandt, a chemistry graduate student from Golden …
Jenny Laaser (Ph.D. 2013)
Jenny Laaser, a doctoral candidate in physical chemistry from Palo Alto, California, studies how chemical reactions happen at various interfaces. But this summer, she’s traded her spot at the lab station for a desk in …