National Science Foundation Research Fellowship Honorable Mention

Stephani Doering – NSF Honorable Mention

Stephani Doering – NSF Honorable Mention

Stephanie is a graduating senior studying Cognitive Neuroscience and Health Informatics. She received Honorable Mention for the NSF Fellowship. Her collaborative work involving both the Bayesian Cognitive Modeling Lab and the Translational Neurobiology Lab focuses on...

Rochelle Radzyminiski – NSF Honorable Mention

Rochelle Radzyminiski – NSF Honorable Mention

Rochelle Radzyminski is a senior physics major at UC Irvine and NSF Fellowship Honorable Mention. In the fall, Rochelle will be attending Stanford University to pursue a Ph.D. in physics. She plans to become a physics professor and continue her work promoting equity...

Christian Totoiu – NSF Honorable Mention

Christian Totoiu – NSF Honorable Mention

Christian Totoiu is a senior with a major in Chemical Engineering who received honorable mention for the NSF Fellowship. In the fall, Christian will begin the Master's in Philosophy in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology program at the University of Cambridge. In...

Rebecca Combs – NSF Honorable Mention

Rebecca Combs – NSF Honorable Mention

Rebecca is a graduating senior in Chemistry and a transfer student. She performed her undergraduate research in Professor Jenny Yang’s laboratory and received the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in 2016.

Rebecca Combs – NSF Honorable Mention

Michelle Herrera – NSF Honorable Mention

Michelle is a graduating senior in Biological Sciences. Her ambitions are inspired by her grandparents and mother, who immigrated from the Philippines. She will continue her research on prickleback transcriptomics and digestive biochemistry as a Ph.D. student in the...

Pauline Ho – NSF Honorable Mention

Pauline Ho – NSF Honorable Mention

Pauline is a graduating senior double-majoring in Education Sciences and Social Policy & Public Service, as well as a research assistant in Dr. Mark Warschauer’s Digital Learning Lab. Her honors thesis research focused on the effects of Learning Assistants on...

Rebecca Combs – NSF Honorable Mention

Ashlee Davis – NSF Honorable Mention

Ashlee is a recent alumni in Chemistry and recipient of the UCI Undergraduate Research Award in Organic Chemistry in 2016. Her research with Professor Suzanne Blum on borylative heterocyclizations produced publications in both the Journal of the American Chemical...

Shaki Minami – NSF Honorable Mention

Shaki Minami – NSF Honorable Mention

Shiaki is a graduating senior whose interest in chemical and energy production brought him to the field of chemical engineering, in which he currently researches metabolic engineering for bio-sustainable polyketide production. He intends to obtain a Ph.D. in Chemical...

Rebecca Combs – NSF Honorable Mention

Jason Yu – NSF Honorable Mention

Jason is a graduating senior in Chemistry and received the Physical Sciences Undergraduate Achievement Award in 2016. His research focuses on using the computational software Turbomole to evaluate bioluminescent probes for disease detection. He will pursue his...