Board Member
Specialization:
Computational Chemistry, Neuroscience, Drug Design
Education:
B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry (2020)
Bio:
Heather is a senior pursuing a B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the College of Creative Studies. She will be pursuing a Ph.D. and conducting research in computational applications to drug design after graduation.
Honors and Awards
- Diversity in Graduate Studies (DIGS) Visitation Program
Nov 2019
Office of Graduate Admissions, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Purdue Graduate Diversity Visitation Program
Oct 2019
Purdue University Office of Graduate Diversity Initiatives - Annual Biomedical Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) Undergraduate Travel Award
Sep 2019
American Society for Microbiology - The Pennsylvania State University STEM Fall Open House
Sep 2019
Pennsylvania State University Office of Graduate Educational Equity Programs - Building Diversity in Biomedical Sciences Summer Research Program (BDBS-SRP)
May 2019
Tufts University Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences - College of Creative Studies Create Fund Summer Fellowship (CCS-SUF)
May 2019
UC Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies - Edison GRE Preparation Course Scholarship
Feb 2019
McNair Scholars Program at UC Santa Barbara - Edison Summer Research Program
Jul 2018
McNair Scholars Program at UC Santa Barbara
When not in the lab, Heather can be found mentoring first- and second-year students at UCSB, helping to further develop high school modules for SciTrek, and watching for dogs on the Chem lawn.
Research:
Current
- Kalju Kahn Group, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry:
Benchmarking density functional methods for the quantum mechanical prediction of vibrational circular dichroism spectra. - Katja Seltmann Group, Cheadle Center of Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER):
Developing a web-based app that will allow for public access to geophysical and environmental data collected by remote sensors.
Previous
- Maribel Rios Group, Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University:
Investigating the feeding state dependency of inhibitory synaptic dynamics in the ventromedial hypothalamus.