Undergraduate Student

Rebecca Wei is a Chemical Engineering student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Originally from Lexington, KY, she is doing research at the University of Kentucky for the summer of 2006. She expects to graduate with a BS in Chemical Engineering in May of 2008.

Her current project in the laboratory is a collaboration with Dr. Kimberly Ward Anderson, a professor of Chemical Engineering at UK.  This project involves testing the biocompatibility of murine fibroblasts with various types of novel nanomaterials.  These nanomaterials include both hydrogels and degradable polymers with the incorporation of nanoparticles.