PFF Graduates

Spring 2024


Eboni Bradley

Eboni Bradley

Program: M.S. in Psychology

College: HHS

Research Professor: Kipling Williams

Thesis Title: The Effect of Invisibility on Exploitative Behaviors

Position: 2024 Assistant Professor at Hope College


Kiera Estes

Govanni Granados

Program: Ph.D in Mathematics

College: Science

Research Professor: Isaac Harris

Thesis Title: Asymptotic and Factorization Analysis for Inverse Shape Problems in Tomography and Scattering Theory

Position: 2024 Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of North Carolina


Andrew Encinas

Andrew Encinas

Program: Ph.D in Chemistry

College: Science

Research Professor: Jean Chmielewski

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Rafael Ceja

 

Rafael Ceja Ayala

Program: Ph.D in Mathematics

College: Science

Research Professor: Isaac Harris

Thesis Title: Analysis and Computation for the Inverse Scattering Problem with Conductive Boundary Conditions

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Gil Gonzalez

Gil Gonzalez

Program: Ph.D in Chemistry

College: Science

Research Professor: Chi Zang

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Fall 2023


Kiera Estes

Kiera Estes

Program: Ph.D in Chemistry

College: Science

Research Professor: David Thompson

Thesis Title: Tuning The Morphology of Synthetic Bottlebrush Polymers for Protein Structural Determination Using cryoEM

Position: 2024 Formulation Scientist / Engineer at Corteva Agriscience


Jennifer Garcia

Kristos Negron 

Program: Ph.D in Chemistry

College: Science

Research Professor: Chittaranjan Das

Thesis Title: Assessment of Approaches to Study Ubiquitin Binding Interfaces

Position: 2024 Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University

Summer 2023


Zulaida Soto Vargas

Zulaida Soto-Vargas

Program: Ph.D in Biological Sciences

College: Science

Research Professor: Andrea Kasinski

Thesis Title: Unraveling the Impact of Oncogenic Signaling in Extracellular Vesicles Mediated Cancer Phenotypes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Position: Postdoctoral Felow at Moffitt Cancer Center


Jennifer Garcia

Jennifer Garcia

Program: Ph.D in Chemistry

College: Science

Research Professor: Marcy Towns

Thesis Title: Undergraduate Student's Understanding and Interpretation of Carbohydrates and Glycosidic Bonds

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Louisiana State University


Melvin Earl Villaber

Melvin Earl Villaver

Program: Ph.D in American Studies

College: Liberal Arts

Research Professor: Rayvon Fouche

Thesis Title: Harmonic Resurgence: Reclaiming the Godino Twins' Journey Through Hip Hop

Position: Assistant Professor of Music and Global Black Studies at Clemson University


De'Shovon

De'Shovon Shenault

Program: Ph.D in Chemistry

College: Science

Research Professor: Scott McLuckey

Thesis Title: Oh Lipids, The Places We Have Gone

Position: Scientist, Analytical Chemistry(R&D) at The Kraft Heinz

Spring 2023


Hector Rodriguez-Simmonds

Hector Rodriguez-Simmonds

Program: Ph.D. in Engineering Education

College: Engineering

Research Professor: Allison Godwin

Thesis Title: At the Borderlands: The Experiences of Latinx gay Engineers

Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston College


Angel Enriquez

Angel Enriquez

Program: Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering

College: Engineering

Research Professor: Hyowon Lee

Thesis Title: Magnetic actuators for Biomedical Applications

Position: Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Purdue University


Xavier Ramos Cardona

Xavier Ramos-Cardona

Program: M.S. in Comparative Pathobiology

College: Veterinary Medicine

Research Professor: Sulma Mohammed

Thesis Title: Canine CAR T cell therapy for solid tumors

Position: Research Scientist at Eli Lily