Meet the Team

From 2016-2021, Evangeline pioneered the use of inclusive and equity-focused peer mentorship to implement the CIMER Entering Research curricula to improve undergraduate research outcomes by creating a multi-tiered course + program to help students build self-efficacy, skills, and knowledge that aid them in discovering their interests and pursuing advanced research opportunities. She adapted CIMER’s Entering Mentoring curricula, and combined it with active learning/teaching training, leadership training, grant writing training, and other work in DEIJB (literature readings and identity and intercultural self-development) to develop a state-of-the-art undergraduate research peer mentor training. She further adapted the CIMER Mentoring Up curriculum for undergraduate and graduate student applications for use with this pioneer program to provide undergraduates with greater knowledge to achieve their desired career outcomes. Many students from that program have gone on to win DAAD-RISE, NSF GRFP, Goldwater, NIH IRTA, Amgen, Erasmus, and Marshall Scholarships/Fellowships. Student alumni rated the program as one of their top three undergraduate experiences and repeatedly cited it as an example of inclusive teaching. Alumni from this program have continued the work to increase and improve culturally-aware research mentorship through peer leadership at their respective institutions all around the world.

Evangeline has also worked in industry at Imbibe and Impossible Objects, the latter of which included co-invention of a Method and Apparatus for Automated Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing (patent 10,046,552 granted August 14, 2018). She earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry for a novel UV Raman spectro-microscopy instrument for probing tribological interfaces and a M.S. in chemistry for inorganic synthesis of catalytic materials from Northwestern University and a A.B. in cultural anthropology from Princeton University.