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“Designing electrolytes to control electrochemical processes”
- Chibueze Amanchukwu
Chibueze Amanchukwu
“Maximizing CO2 capture in photosynthetic organisms”
- Ahmed Badran
Ahmed Badran
“Using abundant materials to make safer batteries”
- Rachel Carter
Rachel Carter
“Driving enhanced tire sustainability and performance”
- Rob Dennis-Pelcher
Rob Dennis-Pelcher
“Developing electrochemical tools to understand corrosion”
- Samantha M. Gateman
Samantha M. Gateman
“Therapeutically targeting structurally dynamic RNAs”
- Alisha Jones
Alisha Jones
“Harnessing radiochemistry to investigate environmental pollutants”
- Outi Keinänen
Outi Keinänen
“Developing new approaches to oligonucleotide manufacturing”
- Sarah Lovelock
Sarah Lovelock
“A path toward drugging the ‘undruggable’ ”
- Jesus Moreno
Jesus Moreno
“Innovating nanoscale biosensors for human health”
- Nako Nakatsuka
Nako Nakatsuka
“Discovering unknown metabolites with chemical AI”
- Michael Skinnider
Michael Skinnider
“Radical catalysis for sustainable synthesis”
- Julian West
Julian West
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34
Average age
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Maps displaying the hometowns and current towns of the Talented 12 class of 2024. Chibueze Amanchukwu, hometown: Lagos, Nigeria, and current town: Chicago; Ahmed Badran, hometowns: Tanta, Egypt, and Tucson, Arizona, and current town: La Jolla, California; Rachel Carter, hometown: Nashville, Tennessee , and current town: Washington, DC; Rob Dennis-Pelcher, hometown: Lyndonville, New York, and current town: Green, Ohio; Samantha M. Gateman, hometown: Cambridge, Ontario, and current town: London, Ontario; Alisha Jones, hometowns: West Haven, Connecticut, and Toledo, Ohio, and current town: New York City; Outi Keinänen, hometown: Espoo, Finland, and current town: Birmingham, Alabama; Sarah Lovelock, hometown: Watford, England, and current town: Manchester, England: Jesus Moreno, hometown: San Diego, and current town, San Diego; Nako Nakatsuka, hometown: Tokyo, and current town: Geneva; Michael Skinnider, hometown: Victoria, British Columbia, and current town: Princeton, New Jersey; Julian West, hometown: Edmonton, Alberta, and current town: Houston.
Here are locations our T12 class of 2024 have called home then and now
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353
Number of peer-reviewed papers published
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9
Number of languages spoken
Arabic, English, Finnish, French, German, Igbo, Japanese, Norwegian, and Spanish
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Bar graph showing when the Talented 12 class of 2024 say they are most productive. Fifty-eight percent say, “I’m an early bird”; 25% say, “I’m like Dolly—working ‘9 to 5’; 17% say, “I’m a night owl.”
When are you most productive? (number of responses)
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What subject—that isn't your research area—could you give a talk about for 5 min with no preparation?
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Bar graph showing how the Talented 12 class of 2024 like to watch a series on a streaming platform. Fifty-eight percent say, “Marathon watching is the only way to go”; 33% say, “I like to pace my programming”; and 8% say, “Who has time to watch a whole series?” Percentages do not sum to 100% because of rounding.
How do you like to watch a series? (number of responses)
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