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Ying Lei

B.A., M.A., Beihang University, China, Ph.D. University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Hang Li

B.E., M.E., Beihang University, China, M.S., Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Christina Othon

• Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• M.S., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• B.S., University of Iowa

Born and raised in Illinois, I was the first person in my family to graduate from college. I went to graduate school at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln earning a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics. After that, I conducted research at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. on 3D tissue printing for regenerative medicine, and at Caltech investigating protein hydration dynamics, before beginning my own academic research career and teaching. My research now focuses on how liquid dynamics can modify and regulate biological processes. I have had a very diverse career that allowed me to work closely with researchers in other disciplines such as biology, chemistry, and medicine. This experience has informed my teaching and mentoring of undergraduate research students. I aim to demonstrate to students in other majors, how physics can inform topics in their own disciplines.

Sarah Desotell

• Ph.D., mechanical engineering with a minor in nanoparticle science and engineering, University of Minnesota
• B.S., mechanical engineering, mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville with degrees in mechanical engineering and mathematics. I earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering with a minor in nanoparticle science and engineering from the University of Minnesota. I previously taught in the Department of Physics at Ripon College from 2006 to 2016.