PhD Plus Highlights
Stories highlighting professional development experience and leadership of PhD students and PhD alums in following categories:
- PhD Plus grads: PhD students who completed PhD+ skills series
- PhD Plus liaisons: PhD students who participated in PhD+ liaison program
- PhD Plus interns: PhD students who participated in project based learning and internship program
- PhD careers: alums in diverse careers
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Zhongwen Luo
After earning PhD in Chemistry, Zhongwen is a CMC Consultant at Data Revive LLC.
Emily Mellen
Emily was an intern with UVA’s Vice Provost's Office for Global Affairs and currently holds the position of communications assistant at this same office. She also previously completed the PhD Plus Digital Humanities module.
Gopal Midha
Gopal was a PhD Plus intern at Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia through Summer and Fall of 2019, under the mentorship of Larry D. Terry, Executive Director of the Weldon Cooper Center.
Megan Miller
Megan is a PhD Plus intern at Center for Survey Research (CSR) at UVA through Summer and Fall of 2019, and Spring of 2020 under the mentorship of Kara Fitzgibbon and Thomas M. Guterbock, Directors of CSR.
Naomi Miyake
Naomi Miyake is a 4th-year PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering.
Blaise Pfaff
Blaise is one of two PhD Plus Liaisons from Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2020-2021.
Sharon Philip
Sharon is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Physics working in the field of experimental condensed matter physics.
Sarah Pollock, PhD
From biomedical PhD to patent law
After earing PhD in Microbiology, Sarah is currently a Patent Agent at Ice Miller LLP in Philadelphia, PA.
Sarah Rabke
Sarah was a PhD Plus intern for Gazelle International from summer 2020 to May 2021, under the mentorship of Nancy Ruther.
Erin Robartes
Sponsored by PhD Plus, Erin was selected from University of Virginia to participate in Commonwealth of Virginia Science & Engineering Policy Fellowship (COVES) in the summer of 2020
Evan Sandsmark
Evan Sandsmark is alumni of the Department of Religious Studies at the University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Evan interned with the American Academy of Religion under the mentorship of Alice Hunt.
Sana Alaya Seghair
Sana is a fifth-year PhD student in the Department of French of Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
Lu Shi
Lu Shi is a fifth year PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry who was a data analyst intern at Gazelle International.
Heidi Siegrist
Heidi was a PhD Plus intern at the Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR) from summer 2020 to May 2021, under the mentorship of Allison Wright and Paul Reyes.
Matthew Slaats
Matthew is a 5th year PhD candidate and was a Summer 2021 intern working with the Highlander Education and Research Center.
Yiqing Song
Yiqing is a 4th-year PhD student in the Astronomy Department. Her dissertation research is to study how stars form differently in colliding galaxies compared to normal galaxies like the Milky Way.
Jeremy Sorgen
Jeremy was a PhD Plus intern at the Franciscan Action Network in Washington, DC, through Summer and Fall of 2019 under mentorship of Executive Director, Patrick Carolan.
Katelyn Stenger
Katelyn Stenger graduated from her PhD program in Engineering Systems Environment in 2022. While pursuing her PhD, Katelyn completed the PhD+ Business in Society module.
Rami Stucky
Rami Toubia Stucky graduated with his PhD in 2022 from the Department of Music. Rami utilized the Propose Your Own option of the PhD+ Internship Program and interned with the American Spaces department of the US State Department.
Jenna Lynn Sumey
Jenna is a PhD Plus Liaisons from Department of Chemical Engineering in 2020-2021.