Dr. Tamara Tate is a postdoctoral scholar in the Digital Learning Lab and School of Education working with Professor Mark Warschauer. She received her B.A. in English and Ph.D. in Education here at UCI. Tamara focuses on K-12 literacy education, technology-supported learning, and exceptional learners of all types. Her work has ranged from secondary analyses…Continue Reading Tamara Tate
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Gaetano Speciale
Dr. Gaetano Speciale is a postdoctoral scholar working with Professor Gregory Weiss in the Department of Chemistry. He received his Ph.D. in Carbohydrate Chemistry from the University of Melbourne in 2016, and was awarded the G.I. Feutrill Award. His current research includes a corporate partnership to develop phage display and directed evolution of therapeutic proteases….Continue Reading Gaetano Speciale
Wendy Brown
Dr. Wendy Brown is a translational postdoctoral fellow at DELTAi (Driving Engineering & Life-science Advances @Irvine) in the Biomedical Engineering Department under Professor Kyriacos A. Athanasiou. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from UC Davis in 2017 and cheered professionally for the Oakland Raiders and Sacramento Kings while in school. Wendy’s Ph.D. research focused…Continue Reading Wendy Brown
Veronica Newhart
Dr. Veronica Newhart is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the NIH-Funded, Institute of Clinical Translational Science TL-1 Training Program. She is conducting research with Drs. Jacquelynne Eccles, School of Education, and Dr. Jeff Krichmar, Department of Cognitive Sciences. She received her Ph.D. from UCI in 2018; her research interests include telepresence, child health & human development,…Continue Reading Veronica Newhart
Martin Minns
Dr. Martin Minns is a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Eric Pearlman at the UCI Institute for Immunology. He received his Ph.D. in 2015 from Boston University researching mechanisms of migration and wound healing in the corneal epithelium after sterile injury. In the Pearlman lab, Martin studies the innate immune response to fungal and bacterial infections…Continue Reading Martin Minns
Madison Fletcher
Dr. Madison Fletcher is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Chemistry working in the lab of Professor Greg Weiss. She received her Ph.D. in organic chemistry in May 2017 from Temple University synthesizing cyclic dinucleotide analogs to probe bacterial signaling systems. As a chemist now focusing on microbiology, she is pursuing an interdisciplinary…Continue Reading Madison Fletcher