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Team BACTERIA
Meet the members of Team BACTERIA!
MEMBERS
Julia Abolafia
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Major: Environmental Science and Technology
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Minor: Statistics
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Activities/Interests: RESTORE, Film Club, tennis
Jack Cowan
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Major: Computer Science
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Activities/Interests: NASA Pathways Intern, programming, working out, music
Jackson Hensley
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Major: Chemistry
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Activities/Interests: Violinist in UMD Repertoire Orchestra, interested in pursuing chemical research after graduation
Wing-Mei Ko - Librarian Liaison
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Major: Civil/Environmental Engineering
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Activities/Interests: UMD Community Learning Garden, Concrete Canoe, Environmental sustainability
Hema Manivannan - Team Liaison
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Major: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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Activities/Interests: Lab assistant in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Banneker Key Mentor, Engineering Diversity Council
Prateeti Sarker - Financial Liaison
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Major: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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Activities/Interests: Treasurer of AIChE, Treasurer of Chem-E Car, Primannum Honor Society, interested in pursuing consulting
Anna Harrison
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Major: Physiology and Neurobiology
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Activities/Interests: Primmanum Honor Society, Gemstone Connect Mentor, Colleges Against Cancer, HighRiser Host, physical fitness, medicine, coffee
Megan Le
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Major: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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Activities/Interests: Primannum Honor Society, tennis, environmental sustainability, music
Tracy Kim - Team Ombudsperson &
Webmaster
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Major: Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Minor: Classical Mythology
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Activities/Interests: Alpha Phi Sigma Honor Society, Coordinator of YMIC Competition, classical music, swimming
Lorena Rivera-Rubio
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Major: Biochemistry
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Activities/Interests: America Reads America Counts mentor (ARAC), Hospital Volunteer, HYPE mentor
Radhika Tyagi - Team Clerk
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Major: Double in Biology and English
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Activities/Interests: CONNECT mentor, involved in Writer's House, writing short stories, geeking out about Shakespeare, sudoku
Dr. Siddhartha Das
Team Mentor
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Joined Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMD in March 2014
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PhD, Theoretical microfluidics from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur; Postdoc at University of Twente, Netherlands; Second Postdoc at University of Alberta, Canada
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Research Interests: micro-nanoscale fluid mechanics and interactions of soft matter with fluid mechanics, particularly in understanding issues such as wetting of a soft solid, electrohydrodynamics past a soft interface, 3D printing, and evaporation-mediated self assembly of soft and rigid particles
Eileen Harrington
Team Librarian
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Health & Life Sciences Librarian, Priddy Library, Shady Grove Campus
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BA, Environmental Studies & Biology; Masters in Environmental Studies; Masters in Library and Information Sciences
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Interests: environmental education, sustainable agriculture, traveling, hiking
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