People

PhD candidate in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering | Entering year: 2019 | Research Interests: critical electrochemical kinetics in solid-state electrolytes for energy storage systems.

PhD candidate in Social Work | Entering year: 2019 | Research interests: African American families; Anti-racist pedagogy; Centering Black Educator Voices; Education and Social Inequality; K-12 Education Policy, Equity, and Outcomes; School Social Work; Social Work Education and Culturally Responsive Practice.

PhD in Computational & Systems Biology | Entering year: 2018 | Research interests: computer science intersections with biology | Graduated: 2023.

Tiana is a 3^rd year PhD student in Mathematics from St. Louis, MO. She has a B.S in Mathematics from Saint Xavier University, an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Noth Carolina A&T, and an M.A. from WashU. She is the Social Media Manager for the Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA). She likes exercising, cooking, and rewatching her comfort show Living Single in her free time.

Chloe assists in creating, publishing and maintaining social media and event flyers for the Graduate Center. She is a first-year MPH Epidemiology and Biostatistics Student at the Brown School. She likes baking pastries, practicing self-care and watching Netflix in her free time.

PhD in Molecular Cell Biology | Entering year: 2017 | Research interests: investigating mechanisms of translational fidelity and translational reprogramming in response to stress in Eukaryotes | Graduated: 2023.

PhD candidate in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering | Entering year: 2020 | Research interests: Physics-Based Modeling with Emphasis on Atomic and Radiative Transfer Simulations, along with the Application of Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Techniques in Health and Environmental Sciences.

PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering | Entering year: 2019 | Research interests: respiratory viruses, host immune response, and fluorescent microscopy.

PhD candidate in Neurosciences | Entering year: 2021 | Research interests: development of functional brain organization in infants.

PhD candidate in Geochemistry | Entering year: 2019 | Research interests: experimental petrology, trace elements partition behaviors, and lunar magnetic processes.

PhD candidate in Physics | Entering year: 2017 | Research interests: development of optical and neuroimaging techniques in humans.

PhD in Molecular Microbiology | Entering year: 2019 | Research interests: multi-drug resistant pathogens and synthetic biology | Graduated: 2023.

PhD in Neuroscience | Entering year: 2018 | Research interests: dissecting the role of central noradrenergic function in stress-induced antinociception | Graduated: 2023.

PhD candidate in Developmental, Regenerative, and Stem Cell Biology | Entering year: 2020 | Research interests: impact of cellular differentiation on Host-pathogen interactions, bioinformatics, and genome editing.

PhD candidate in Energy, Environment and Chemical Engineering | Entering year: 2018 | Research interests: Aerosols and air quality.

AM in Sociology | Entering year: 2020 | Research interests: immigration, colonialism, refugee integration, race/ethnicity, inequality | Graduated: 2023.

Rachel works closely with the leadership staff of The Graduate Center and plays a key role in its continuing innovative development as a dedicated campus space with interdisciplinary programming and information resources for graduate and professional students at Washington University in St. Louis.

PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering | Entering year: 2018 | Research interests: visual processing in retinal circuits using functional and anatomical microscopy.

PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures | Entering Year: 2015 | Research interests: Hispanic literature, use of humor in literature | Graduated: 2022