Former J-WEL pK-12 faculty advisor Angela Belcher elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2022

Former J-WEL pK-12 faculty advisor Angela Belcher was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Prof. Belcher helped to lay the foundations for J-WEL's pK-12 efforts and participated in many of our early events prior to being named head of the Department of Biological Engineering. From the MIT News announcement:
 

Angela Belcher is the James Mason Crafts Professor of Biological Engineering and Materials Science, a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, and the head of the Department of Biological Engineering.

She is a biological and materials engineer with expertise in the fields of biomaterials, biomolecular materials, organic-inorganic interfaces, and solid-state chemistry and devices. Her primary research focus is evolving new materials for energy, electronics, the environment, and medicine.

She received her BS in creative studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She earned a PhD in inorganic chemistry at UCSB in 1997. Following her postdoctoral research in electrical engineering at UCSB, she joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Chemistry. She joined the faculty at MIT in 2002.

Our congratulations to Prof. Belcher! Read the full MIT News article.