Achievement

Summer REU Program

Two NSF IGERT Undergraduate Interns, both Hispanic, one of whom is a female have been accepted into Ph.D. programs. Elizabeth Figueroa (Rebekah Drezek lab) will do research in biomedical engineering at Rutgers University. Mel Hainey (N.J. Halas lab) has been accepted in a doctoral program in material sciences at the University of Florida and Penn State.

Elizabeth Figueroa received the Brown Foundation Undergraduate Research Internship Program, 2009-2010, Rice University.