Dr. Sarah Aarons works with Asst. Prof. Kathleen Johnson and Prof. Eric Saltzman in the Department of Earth System Science. Her research is in ice core chemistry, where she measures organic and inorganic chemicals in ice cores to reconstruct biomass burning in the Northern Canadian Arctic. This is important to constrain how the rates of forest…Continue Reading Sarah Aarons
Dr. George Stiubianu works with Prof. Alon Gorodetsky in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. He is interested in producing dynamic materials that control infrared radiation. The aim of this is to develop clothing that can regulate the temperature of the wearer, which can have applications in everyday clothing and in camouflage. George received…Continue Reading George Stiubianu
Meet Dr. Jessica Cassidy, a postdoc in the laboratory of Dr. Steven Cramer in the Dept. of Neurology. Her projects focus on central nervous system repair in humans and encompass telerehabilitation, neuroimaging, and EEG application in stroke. She earned her Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Science with a Neuroscience minor at the University of Minnesota where her research utilized transcranial…Continue Reading Jessica Cassidy
Meet Dr. Alicia Hall, a postdoc in the laboratory of Dr. Tallie Z. Baram in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology. She currently studies mechanisms of epileptogenesis in order to block epilepsy development. She earned her Ph.D. at University of Alabama at Birmingham studying neuronal hyperexcitability in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Alicia attended University…Continue Reading Alicia Hall
Meet Postdoctoral scholar Dr. Rishi Jajoo who conducts research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Rishi is re-engineering the mitochondrial genetic code to produce new proteins with functions not found in nature. He is also planning to speed the evolution of mitochondrial DNA to allow evolution to draw on that increased number of building blocks…Continue Reading Rishi Jajoo
Meet Dr. Houman Yaghoubi who works in Dr. Shane Ardo’s laboratory in the Department of Chemistry. Houman’s primary area of interest spans the field of clean energy, namely solar energy conversion and harvesting, solar fuel production, and synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications. His work is funded by the U.S. Department of…Continue Reading Houman Yaghoubi