Konna Zoga, which is short for Paraskevi Konstantina Zoga, is a Ph.D. candidate in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering. She was born and raised in

Piyumi Wijesirigunawardana hails from the city of Kandy in Sri Lanka. She pursued her undergraduate studies in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at

Austin is a second-year graduate student in the Immunology program. He works in the lab of Dr. Steven Varga, who studies both the innate and adaptive

Riley Post grew up on a small farm outside of Blue Grass, IA. He completed an undergraduate and master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the

Winter Philibert is a first-year Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student in the Department of Internal Medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Mahmoud Abou

Tahsin is from Sanandaj, a beautiful mountainous city in the west of Iran. Tahsin is a Neuromuscular Exercise Physiologist who is currently working

Berkley is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies with a graduate certificate in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies. Her work is at the

Jace Heath is a third year PhD candidate in the Immunology and Microbiology program at the University of Iowa. Jace graduated from the University of

Kassie Jo Baron is a PhD candidate in English, studying 19^th-century American literature. Her dissertation project examines the literary