Celebrate our students' success at the Spring 2016 College of Science and Technology Graduation Ceremony. the featured speaker is Madeleine M. Joullié, Ph.D., Class of 1970 Term Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Joullié then joined the faculty at Penn, where she was one of the first female professors to earn tenure in chemistry at an Ivy League school. Her research interests are in the areas of heterocyclic, medicinal and natural products chemistry. Her laboratory has focused on the chemistry of the cyclopeptide alkaloids and didemnin families of natural products, as well as the development of compounds for the visualization of latent fingerprints as a forensic tool in law enforcement. She currently serves on the College of Science and Technology’s Board of Visitors.

The student speaker is Yongjoo Cho, CST ’16, who is graduating with a bachelor of science in biology. Cho was a member of Temple’s University’s Honors Program and a participant in CST’s Undergraduate Research Program. She worked with Temple neurologist Dr. Peter Crino on the link between human papilloma virus and focal cortical dysplasia cases and with Temple neuroscientist Dr. Young-Jin Son to characterize the roles of several Hippo-Yap signaling pathway components in the peripheral nerve. This year, she earned the college’s James A. Harrison Memorial Award for scholarship, research accomplishment and extracurricular activities in the Department of Biology.

In July, Cho will begin the Medical University of South Carolina’s Medical Scientist Training Program to earn a dual M.D./Ph.D. She hopes to focus her research on neurological disease in development, degeneration or addiction.