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Meet the members of Team BACTERIA!

 

MEMBERS

Julia Abolafia
  • Major: Environmental Science and Technology
  • Minor: Statistics
  • Activities/Interests: RESTORE, Film Club, tennis
 
Jack Cowan
  • Major: Computer Science
  • Activities/Interests: NASA Pathways Intern, programming, working out, music
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Jackson Hensley
  • Major: Chemistry
  • Activities/Interests: Violinist in UMD Repertoire Orchestra, interested in pursuing chemical research after graduation
Wing-Mei Ko - Librarian Liaison
  • Major: Civil/Environmental Engineering
  • Activities/Interests: UMD Community Learning Garden, Concrete Canoe, Environmental sustainability
Hema Manivannan - Team Liaison
  • Major: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

  • Activities/Interests: Lab assistant in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Banneker Key Mentor, Engineering Diversity Council

Prateeti Sarker - Financial Liaison
  • Major: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • Activities/Interests: Treasurer of AIChE, Treasurer of Chem-E Car, Primannum Honor Society, interested in pursuing consulting
Anna Harrison
  • Major: Physiology and Neurobiology
  • Activities/Interests: Primmanum Honor Society, Gemstone Connect Mentor, Colleges Against Cancer, HighRiser Host, physical fitness, medicine, coffee
 
Megan Le
  • Major: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • Activities/Interests: Primannum Honor Society, tennis, environmental sustainability, music
Tracy Kim - Team Ombudsperson &  
                               Webmaster
  • Major: Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Minor: Classical Mythology
  • Activities/Interests: Alpha Phi Sigma Honor Society, Coordinator of YMIC Competition, classical music, swimming
Lorena Rivera-Rubio
  • Major: Biochemistry
  • Activities/Interests: America Reads America Counts mentor (ARAC), Hospital Volunteer, HYPE mentor
Radhika Tyagi - Team Clerk
  • Major: Double in Biology and English
  • Activities/Interests: CONNECT mentor, involved in Writer's House, writing short stories, geeking out about Shakespeare, sudoku
Dr. Siddhartha Das
Team Mentor
  • Joined Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMD in March 2014
  • PhD, Theoretical microfluidics from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur; Postdoc at University of Twente, Netherlands; Second Postdoc at University of Alberta, Canada
  • 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
  • BA, Environmental Studies & Biology; Masters in Environmental Studies; Masters in Library and Information Sciences
  • Interests: environmental education, sustainable agriculture, traveling, hiking
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