Scholars
View Previous ScholarsJaime Adams
Mentor: Dr. Aron Stubbins
Jaime is a fourth-year Environmental and Sustainability Sciences and Chemistry major from Connecticut. She is working with Dr. Aron Stubbins and PhD candidate Andresa Oliveira Tavares Lima to study how microplastics degrade in acidic and alkaline conditions, and further hopes to observe how they degrade in human stomach conditions. Broadly, the Stubbins Lab investigates the flux of natural and anthropogenic carbon in the carbon cycle. She is excited to improve her skills as a scientist and contribute to field of environmental pollution research.
Kristina Duong
Mentor: Dr. Penny Beuning
Hello, my name is Kristina Duong, and I am a third-year student majoring in Cellular and Molecular Biology with a minor in Data Science. I’m currently working with a Ph.D. candidate in the Beuning Lab as a research assistant, where we are studying protein interactions involved in DNA damage repair mechanisms. Our project focuses on how wild-type and variant DinB and NER proteins interact to help cells tolerate DNA damage from environmental agents. I’m excited to gain hands-on research experience and improve my skillset so that I can apply this knowledge to my future career in bioinformatics and biotechnology.
Emily Maez
Mentor: Dr. Phil Brown
Emily Maez is a third year Environmental Studies student at Northeastern University with a minor in Architecture. She joined the PFAS Project Lab in July 2025. Emily discovered an interest in the environment growing up climbing and hiking in the mountains of Northern Nevada and California and started researching methods of sustainability starting in high school where she investigated methods of regenerative architecture. She has pursued this interest into the community and public health realm with her internship on a regenerative farm in Costa Rica called Verde Energía and hopes to investigate further into how we can aid our social and political spheres by modeling our approach off of natural processes at the PFAS Project Lab.
