Home Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: Soil-transmitted helminth contamination of soil in rural Kenyan households
Event: 2015 UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy
Awarded in 2025
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Guosong Hong (Materials Science & Engineering) and Xiaoke Chen (Biology)
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Self-propulsion of a freely-suspended, rotationally-symmetric swimmer enabled by viscoelastic normal stresses
Event: American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 2021
Home Department: undeclared
Mentor: Stephen Quake (Bioengineering and Applied Physics)
Dr. Laura Seeholzer did her PhD at Rockefeller University with Dr. Vanessa Ruta and post-doctoral studies at UCSF with Dr. David Julius.
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Design rules for supramolecular hydrogel-cell interactions: From growing tissue towards bio-electronic applications
Event: ACS Fall 2024 Denver - Laura received the ACS Global Outstanding Student Award 2024.
Dr. Laura Prolo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. After receiving her A.B. in Biology and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, she completed her MD and PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford University. She remained at Stanford for Neurosurgery residency, then completed a fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery at University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital.
