Santina Cruz
Office:
113 Davey Lab
Education:
B.S. Chemistry, James Madison University, 2015
Honors and Awards:
NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Graduate Fellow, 2018
Department of Chemistry Graduate Student Service Award, 2018
Bunton-Waller Graduate Assistantship, 2015
ACS Undergraduate Award Inorganic Chemistry, 2015
Student Employee of the Year Runner-Up, 2014
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Service Award, 2014
Research:
My work focuses on changing the surface chemistry of small metallic nanoparticles. We study how these changes impact the electronic structure of the nanoparticles using a novel tool called conduction electron spin resonance.