When the NCAA promotes the notion of a student athlete, they do not immediately think of ARCS Minnesota Scholar Lizzy Crist as a poster child, but perhaps they should. Crist has already completed her undergraduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis, and was named the 2017 NCAA Woman of the...
Kianna Gedwillo is a second year PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She merges her background in Chemical Engineering (minor in Biology) with a profound interest in medicine - hence her decision to pursue biomedical engineering.
Kianna works in the laboratory of Dr. Paolo Provenzano, where her...
Josh's doctoral research involves designing deployment schemes for autonomous watercraft to monitor lakes for invasive carp, as an alternative to more controversial methods such as poisoning or quarantining waterways. Invasive carp dominate local ecosystems, overwhelming native fish, destroying plant life, and causing serious damage to water quality.
Jackie McCourt has had a love of proteins since her undergraduate days. Now, she studies the biophysical properties of the protein dystrophin and its role in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). Specifically, she's interested in the consequences of dystrophin mutations on the stability of this protein, and the implications on the development...
Greg was recently was awarded the "Outstanding Dissertation Award" for his 2012 thesis at the University of Minnesota by the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (http://www.ce.umn.edu/news/). This was work that ARCS Foundation Minnesota helped directly to support. This was a great honor for Greg as a national recognition in...
Coty Jen is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Dr. Peter McMurry’s group at the Mechanical Engineering Department. Her research spans many disciplines from mechanical and chemical engineering, to chemistry and environmental science. Coty’s thesis work focuses on the chemical pathways for atmospheric nucleation. Pollutants and naturally occurring compounds have a propensity...
Kianna Gedwillo is a second year PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Josh's doctoral research involves
Jackie McCourt has had a love of proteins since her undergraduate days. 
Coty Jen is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Dr. Peter McMurry’s group at the Mechanical Engineering Department. Her research spans many disciplines from mechanical and chemical engineering, to chemistry and environmental science. Coty’s thesis work focuses on the chemical pathways for atmospheric nucleation. Pollutants and naturally occurring compounds have a propensity...