Tag: Chemical and Biological Engineering

Senior adds prestigious Marshall Scholarship to string of academic honors

Claire Evensen, the daughter of a physician and an engineering physics professor, says she sometimes feels like her college major was predestined. “From a young age, my parents instilled in me this attitude that science is cool,” she says. As an undergraduate at UW–Madison, Evensen has excelled in biochemistry and mathematics, winning numerous honors for …

Ive Hermans: Building bridges between disciplines, professions and continents

Between growing up in Belgium, a trilingual country with multiple ethnic communities, receiving dual training in chemistry and chemical engineering, and holding faculty positions in both Europe and the United States, Ive Hermans is used to straddling two (or more) worlds. That helps him relate to the distinct mindsets of students who major in either …