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The ultimate goal is to generate preliminary images of the crust and upper mantle, identify structural differences controlling volcano construction across the archipelago, and enable stress field modeling to document magma ascent processes driving the region's anomalously long-lived volcanic activity.March 3, 2026 -
Richelle Gao '27 has been awarded a $10,000 Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute Scholar award for her summer research project, "Biomarker-Driven Diagnostic Modeling to Complement Urine Cytology in Urothelial Carcinoma" under the mentorship of Dr. Bineyam Taye (internal faculty sponsor) and Dr. Jia Yu Rao (external faculty sponsor at UCLA).February 26, 2026