Trevor Harrison (PhD Candidate – Mechanical Engineer) develops instruments for studying coastal oceans. Specifically, he’s working on the microFloat, an inexpensive, simple underwater robot for measuring water properties - like speed, temperature, and pollution - at many different locations simultaneously.
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Robyn Emery is a PhD student in the M3D Molecular Medicine PhD program at UW. She studies how a person's genetics makes them more or less susceptible to become ill with tuberculosis. She looks at genes that are involved in inflammation, because inflammation is the body's major response to bacterial infections.
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Conor McNicholas is a graduate student in Atmospheric Sciences at UW. He studies how hundreds of millions of smartphones, now capable of measuring atmospheric pressure, can be leveraged to improve weather forecasts and enhance our understanding of small-scale weather phenomena like thunderstorms.
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Yaamini Venkataraman is a current graduate student at the University of Washington's School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. She is interested in how climate change is going to affect the organisms in our current and future oceans. Using “-omic” techniques, she explores how ocean acidification affects multiple generations of oysters.
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Will Pollock is a second-year PhD student studying geologic hazards. His research involves developing methods not only to predict when, where, and how large landslides will be, but also to quantify the impact they will have on humans and infrastructure.
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Nadiah Jenkins is a graduate student in the Aeronautics & Astronautics department who studies plasma propulsion thrusters, the next-generation vehicles for interplanetary space exploration. Her work looks at plasma waves in these thrusters, including where waves come from and the problems they cause.
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Rachel Is a graduate student in epidemiology. Her research examines how diabetes effects patients with HIV or tuberculosis. Her current projects explore how clinical characteristics could guide diabetes screening for HIV-infected adults in South Africa.
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