People

PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering | Entering Year: 2019 | Research interests: optical resonators, machine learning applied to data analysis and integrated photonics.

PhD in Molecular Cell Biology | Entering Year: 2016 | Research interests: computational and synthetic biology | Graduated: 2022.

Arpit is a first-year MBA student from Amritsar, India. He graduated from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology with a B.E. in Mechatronics Engineering. For the last six years, he worked with Alstom Transport, a French MNC, building and testing trains across three continents. He loves visiting museums, photography, and reading poetry and prose in different languages.

PhD in Biomedical Engineering | Entering Year: 2018 | Research interests: bioelectronics for musculoskeletal therapeutics and neuroskeletal regulation of bone metabolism and repair | Graduated: 2023.

PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering | Entering year: 2018 | Research interests: Characterizing antibody binding to influenza virus proteins.

PhD candidate in Molecular Cell Biology | Entering year: 2021 | Research interests: cancer metabolism, and specifically the role of extracellular lactate in the progression of Osteosarcoma,a primary malignant bone tumor.

AM in American Literature | Entering Year: 2016 | Research interests: early modern drama | Graduated: 2022.

MBA | Entering Year: 2020 | Graduated: 2022

DaFene is a 2^nd year MBA student from Albany, Georgia. He has a bachelors and a masters degree in Political Science from Albany State University and Florida A&M University respectively. Before coming to WashU, he worked as an English teacher on Jeju Island, South Korea. When he isn't studying you can find him practicing photography, videography, and Muy Thai.

PhD candidate in Materials Science and Engineering | Entering year: 2018 | Research interests: diabetic complications in the skeleton.

JSD in Law | Entering year: 2019 | Research interests: international arbitration, dispute resolution, constitutional law and theory, public policy and lawmaking | Graduated: 2023.

PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering | Entering year: 2020 | Research interests: synthetic biology and regenerative medicine, engineering cartilage therapeutics for rheumatoid arthritis.

Jessica sets the strategic direction for The Graduate Center and the University-wide graduate fellowships including the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Fellowship, Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship, and the Pivot 314 Fellowship.  Jessica works closely with the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and International Affairs to oversee all aspects of university-wide programming designed to advance the development of the graduate student body.

Nancy provides administrative support for The Graduate Center. In this role, she supports and assists the director and manager of The Graduate Center with event logistics, coordinates activities with outside vendors, processes the accounting through WorkDay, manages the logistics of specific events, and greets visitors.

PhD candidate in Neuroscience | Entering year: 2019 | Research interests: the spatial spread extent and spread patterns of tau protein neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer Disease.

PhD in Imaging Science | School Entering Year: 2019 | Research interests: big data, fMRI, depression, psychological events | Graduated: 2023.

Jenn is an MSW/MBA student from Beaumont California. They graduated from UC-San Diego with a BS in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience and Business Psychology. Jenn staffs the Center and helps promote the Center to graduate and professional students.

PhD candidate in English Literature | Entering year: 2020 | Research interests: documentary poetics and film, race and gender studies, intermediality, and visual culture.

PhD candidate in Developmental Biology | Entering Year: 2018 | Research interests: human embryogenesis and regenerative medicine.

PhD Candidate in Social Work | Entering year: 2018 | Research interests: child maltreatment epidemiology and child welfare policy.