Are you interested in learning about graduate degree programs in science and engineering, what life as a graduate student is like, and the career options that a master’s or PhD degree can open up for you? Native panelists will describe their personal journeys in preparing for graduate school, their perspectives on the graduate school experience, and the next steps along their chosen career path. Attendees are expected to have their camera on, ask questions, and respond to prompts in the chat.

Sponsored by The Center for Synthesizing Quantum Coherence and The UNC-Pembroke Student AISES Chapter

Aug. 17, 2021 7-9 PM EDT

For undergraduates interested in learning about graduate school. Limit 30.

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*About the Panelists

Dr. Jesse Peltier grew up in Bellevue, Washington and is Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe and White Bear Nakoda. He received his PhD in chemistry from the University of California, San Diego, and is now a Ford Foundation and President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley where he studies materials for hydrogen storage applications.

Dr. Ranalda Tsosie grew up in Arizona on the Diné reservation, and received her PhD in interdisciplinary studies at the University of Montana. She is a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Montana State University in environmental engineering, pursuing new materials for water purification and working with local Navajo and Crow communities.

Mr. Matt Maxwell is a citizen of The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and a PhD candidate studying cancer biology at The University of California, San Diego and The Salk Institute. He co-leads the AISES chapter at UCSD. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biochemical technology from Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Matt’s research focuses on how gene mutations effect therapeutic responses to cancer immunotherapies and chemotherapies.

Mr. Ivan Rajen is Diné and grew up in Albuquerque where he studied physics at the University of New Mexico. He is a PhD candidate in the Bioengineering department at the University of California, San Diego working on computational simulations of the neuron synapse.

*About CSQC

CSQC is an NSF-funded Center for Chemical Innovation consists of researchers from Duke University, Northwestern University, University of Illinois, and University of California, Berkeley who apply the tools of synthesis, spectroscopy, theory, and computation to understand the coherent flow of electronic excited states and charges through nanostructures and molecules. This research will have wide-ranging impact in quantum information systems, energy conversion, molecular sensing, and quantum computing. https://csqc.duke.edu/