Grad Hooding Q&A – Paul Hurst
At UCI, Hurst’s dissertation research was on the self-assembly of polymers, molecules that contain a repeating unit, “like a bunch of Legos stacked on top of each other,” he says.
June 12, 2023
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At UCI, Hurst’s dissertation research was on the self-assembly of polymers, molecules that contain a repeating unit, “like a bunch of Legos stacked on top of each other,” he says.
Shemms Najjar’s time in UCI’s Program in Public Health has set the foundation for who she aspires to be and what she wants to do in life.
Kelsey Morgan didn’t come back to UCI to get a Ph.D.; she returned to pursue a specific project that would help her combat what she sees as one of the most important human rights issues today: human trafficking.
Having been an Anteater for almost 10 years, Hinesh Patel has experienced numerous highlights and challenges.
Jianmin Shao, a Ph.D. student in psychological science, has been named a 2023 Dissertation Fellow in Women’s Studies by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars’ WW National Fellowship Foundation.
Sophia Gad-Nasr is a 6th-year PhD candidate in cosmology and astroparticle physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy under her advisor Manoj Kaplinghat. She will be defending her thesis in September 2023.
Jeevika Bhat (she/her) is a dancer and choreographer from the Bay Area and will graduate with an MFA in Dance on June 17 in the Bren Events Center.
Jazette Johnson will be the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in informatics from UCI’s Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences.
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