Tara Pena received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Tara Pena, a PhD candidate in electrical and computer engineering from Queens, New York. Pena’s research in professor Stephen Wu’s lab is on the fabrication and characterization of strain-based quantum device structures with 2D van der Walls materials. She’ll also continue her outreach involvement through the Kearns Center, PASSAGE (Physics and Astronomical Sciences Student Association for Graduate Engagement)and GSOC (Graduate Students of Color) and eventually hopes to facilitate a research group that focuses on post-Moore’s Law nanoelectronics.

Read more here.