December 18, 2017
Liana Vaccari, a recent DROPPS graduate who receieved a PhD in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), was awarded the Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate 2018 Fellowship. Liana will serve on the the Ocean Studies Board starting in January 2018.
Liana studied physical characteristics of bacteria behavior at oil-water interfaces in Dr. Kate Stebe's lab at UPENN. Liana was also awarded as a GoMRI Scholar in 2014 and 2016.