Anne Polyakov is a graduate student at the University of Washington and she studies how plants communicate using vast, underground fungal networks, through which they share nutrients and warning neighbors of incoming danger within the network. Anne studies the costs and benefits of participating in this network, and what we can learn from plant communities by listening to what they are saying in the wood wide web.

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A.J. Balatico is a Ph.D. student in Learning Sciences and Human Development in the University of Washington’s College of Education with interests in computational neuroscience and educational equity, especially for science, technology, engineering, and math education. He focuses on how people learn motivation and identities from their experiences.

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Andrea Joseph is a Chemical Engineering graduate student at the University of Washington. She studies the brain’s natural defense systems and how they go awry in disease. These changes are important to consider when designing new treatments that target the brain.

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Taryn Black is a geoscientist studying glacier changes in Greenland. She uses satellite images to monitor seasonal and yearly variations in glacier size and to determine how they are responding to climate change.

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Virginia Littell is a second year Masters student in the Earth and Space Sciences Department at the University of Washington. She is a geologist who studies the ancient climate of Southern Asia by analyzing the chemical signatures of soils and fossils.

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Samantha Phan is a Chemistry graduate student at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on developing efficient and environmentally friendly chemical techniques for semiconducting materials used in organic carbon-based electronic devices, such as OLEDs, solar cells, and wearable electronics. The purpose of her project is to reduce the materials’ economic costs and chemical complexity, making them more suitable for large-scale commercial production and lower the cost of future electronic devices.

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Mengying is a graduate student at UW studying molecular engineering. She studies fluorescent nanoparticles called quantum dots and their behaviors in the developing brain. Her work also focuses on using the knowledge gained above to better design imaging and tracking system of viruses or other biological entity in the brain.

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