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About

My interest in paleontology started at a young age and only strengthened with visits to nearby natural history museums, such as the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Paleontology is the closest thing we have to time traveling in real life, and like in movies, the past is tied to our present and future.

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As an undergraduate student at PSU, I quickly joined Dr. Peter Wilf's paleobotany lab as a first-year, and my projects have only increased in size and number in graduate school. When not in the lab, I am passionate about undergraduate mentoring and advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in STEM.

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Outside graduate school, I love cooking, traveling, and reading. You can find me taking care of my ~30 houseplants and pet shrimp, Cornelius, or working on my ever-growing comic book collection!

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Me at the USDA National Seed Herbarium, Washington DC.

Education

2022- Present

Pennsylvania State University

Ph.D. Student in the Geosciences Dept. and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State working with Dr. Peter Wilf.

NSF GRFP Recipient.

Research Focus: Timing and assembly of the Southeast Asian rainforests through Cenozoic plant fossils.

2018-2022

Pennsylvania State University

Bachelors of Science with Honors in Geobiology.

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Minors in Wildlife and Fisheries Science, Astrobiology, Biology, Global and International Studies, Marine Science.

Certificates in International Science and from the Presidential Leadership Academy.

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Member of the Penn State Millennium Scholars Program

Awards, Scholarships and Grants

  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP; 2022)

  • Penn State Dean's Distinguished Graduate Scholarship (2022)

  • Penn State University Graduate Fellowship (2022)

  • Penn State Earth and Environmental Systems Institute Scholar (2022)

  • Dean Edward Steidle Memorial Scholar Award (2022)

  • Catherine Lyons Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Undergraduate Student Award (2022)

  • Phi Beta Kappa Undergraduate Honors Thesis Award (2022)

  • Botanical Society of America Young Botanist Award (2022)

  • College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Academy for Global Experience (EMSAGE) Award (2021)

  • Penn State University Erickson Discovery Grant (2020)

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