Stephanie Emenyonu

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Stephanie has just completed her Junior year at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She is an Engineering Sciences major who dreams of a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. Stephanie is a hard-working and incredibly intelligent young woman with aspirations as big as her smile. She is very active in the science and engineering communities at school, as she seeks to gain the experience and the knowledge that will one day assist her in her work with cancer research.

She is a member of the Dartmouth College chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, the National Society of Black Engineers and the Dartmouth Cancer Scholars, whichIMG_4011 she explains is a group of students who can connect and network with different cancer researchers, and who desire to be the future of cancer research.

“Improve treatment, better imaging; anything that can help with improving cancer and it’s destruction. That is what is we strive for,” Stephanie says.

Stephanie became interested in nanotechnology in 2014 when she took a course offered at Dartmouth College called “Introduction to Biomedical Engineering.”

“I learned about the ways in which nanoparticles play a role in cancer research….which sparked my interest in the various means that nanotechnology can be used to improve medicine,” Stephanie said.

Stephanie wafer 2  The Photonics Center is equipped with the knowledge and technology to assist Stephanie in her education that will one day change the way we treat cancer. REU is not her first time working and researching in the lab, though. She was an assistant researcher at the Dartmouth Biomedical Engineering Center, where she gained skills with orthopedic device materials.

REU has proven to be a great fit for Stephanie, “…I have a fascination for the knowledge we can gain from examining physics at a miniscule level and applying that information to see better at our level.”

Along with her time spent in the lab and on her studies, Stephanie also loves to sing. She has always participated in choir and finds singing to be a great activity that she would like to continue in the future.

We know that Stephanie has a bright future ahead of her, and we are lucky that she chose REU at Boston University to help her take steps towards her dream of earning a PhD.