People
Maxwell Adolphson
PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering | Entering Year: 2019 | Research interests: optical resonators, machine learning applied to data analysis and integrated photonics.
Winston Anthony
PhD in Molecular Cell Biology | Entering Year: 2016 | Research interests: computational and synthetic biology | Graduated: 2022.
Arpit Arya
Graduate Center Associate
- Email: gradcenter@wustl.edu
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.
Alec Beeve
PhD in Biomedical Engineering | Entering Year: 2018 | Research interests: bioelectronics for musculoskeletal therapeutics and neuroskeletal regulation of bone metabolism and repair | Graduated: 2023.
Ananya Benegal
PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering | Entering year: 2018 | Research interests: Characterizing antibody binding to influenza virus proteins.
Shambhavi Bhagwat
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.
Sara Brenes Ackerman
AM in American Literature | Entering Year: 2016 | Research interests: early modern drama | Graduated: 2022.
Bryanna Brown
MBA | Entering Year: 2020 | Graduated: 2022
Dafene Brown
Graduate Center Associate
- Email: gradcenter@wustl.edu
DaFene is a 2nd 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.
Kaitlyn Broz
PhD candidate in Materials Science and Engineering | Entering year: 2018 | Research interests: diabetic complications in the skeleton.
Harper Chen
JSD in Law | Entering year: 2019 | Research interests: international arbitration, dispute resolution, constitutional law and theory, public policy and lawmaking | Graduated: 2023.
Amanda Cimino
PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering | Entering year: 2020 | Research interests: synthetic biology and regenerative medicine, engineering cartilage therapeutics for rheumatoid arthritis.
Jessica Klingler Cissell
Director of Graduate Programming and The Graduate Center
- Phone: 314-935-4995
- Email: jessica.k.cissell@wustl.edu
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 Cummings
Administrative Assistant, The Graduate Center
- Phone: 314-935-7355
- Email: ncummings@wustl.edu
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.
Stephanie Doering
PhD candidate in Neuroscience | Entering year: 2019 | Research interests: the spatial spread extent and spread patterns of tau protein neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer Disease.
Rosie Dutt
PhD in Imaging Science | School Entering Year: 2019 | Research interests: big data, fMRI, depression, psychological events | Graduated: 2023.
Jenn Encizo
Graduate Center Associate
- Phone: 314-477-3327
- Email: gradcenter@wustl.edu
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.
Laura Evers
PhD candidate in English Literature | Entering year: 2020 | Research interests: documentary poetics and film, race and gender studies, intermediality, and visual culture.
Laura Fischer
PhD candidate in Developmental Biology | Entering Year: 2018 | Research interests: human embryogenesis and regenerative medicine.
María Gandarilla Ocampo
PhD Candidate in Social Work | Entering year: 2018 | Research interests: child maltreatment epidemiology and child welfare policy.