About Me

Grand Challenges: Engineering Better Medicines and Advancing Personalized Learning

For background and more information on this Grand Challenge, see the Engineering Better Medicines or Advancing Personalized Learning pages. I want to help solve the challenges medicine will face in the coming years. These challenges can be biological, such as emerging diseases and spreading antibiotic resistance, or societal, such as preventing the global spread of disease and making quality healthcare available for all. However, these problems will not be solved by me alone, or even within my lifetime. Teaching the next generation of scientists, engineers, and policy makers is essential for 

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Why GCSP?

Each field trying to solve these problems in isolation will be less successful than an interdisciplinary effort. While targeted study is necessary, it is important to be able to view the problem from a larger perspective and understand how each Grand Challenge connects to the others. I believe that UMBC's GCS program will help me learn how to work towards interdisciplinarity throughout my career. For more information and a link to the program website, see the UMBC's Grand Challenge Scholars page.