alumnae

The portraits below highlight a few of the women alumnae of Caltech.

Angie Mah
Graduate Student, 2000-2005
Currently: Postdoctoral fellow, Dixit Lab, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco.

Andrea Vasconcellos graduated in 2005 with a B.S. in Biology.  Soon after graduation she married another Caltech-er, becoming Mrs. Granstedt, and together with her husband took a year off to travel to Osaka, Japan with a Christian missionary organization.  She is now starting her PhD studies in Molecular Biology at Princeton University, pursuing her interest in neuroscience.  On the side, she is part of a running club and plays the flute in a community orchestra.  She also embraces opportunities to hike, camp, or scuba dive.

Bernadette Heyburn started her PhD research in High Energy Physics with Uriel Nauenberg at the University of Colorado (at Boulder). She is working on simulations of Supersymmetry as a part of the Compact Muon Solenoid collaboration at CERN, and will be moving to Geneva in May in order to continue my PhD work on-site. Bernadette is also the Physics Representative to CU's United Government of Graduate Students.  She spends most of her free time salsa dancing, attending concerts, and playing pool.

Maryam Ali graduated in 2005 with Caltech's first all-female class in Chemical Engineering. Since getting her B.S., she has been at Auburn University getting a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering. Her research interests include biomaterials, drug delivery and neuroscience. Her work with the Caltech Women's Center has led her to advocate science education among women. In her free time she enjoys reading. She is an international student from Pakistan and a member of Blacker Hovse.