{"id":67032,"date":"2006-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/pawtucket-resident-set-to-graduate-from-uri-after-best-year-of-my-life\/"},"modified":"2006-05-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T00:00:00","slug":"pawtucket-resident-set-to-graduate-from-uri-after-best-year-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/05\/pawtucket-resident-set-to-graduate-from-uri-after-best-year-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawtucket resident set to graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站 after \u2018best year of my life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tTop engineering student heads to Princeton for grad school<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. — May 9, 2006 — When Meghan Bellows graduates from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 21, she\u2019ll look back on an undergraduate career that included complex engineering research, several scholarships and honor society inductions, tae kwon do classes, and participation in the 溏心vlog免费B站 marching band and pep band.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe\u2019ll also look back fondly on a year she calls the best of her life.<\/p>\n


\n\tBellows has earned degrees in chemical engineering and German through the University\u2019s International Engineering Program, and between her junior and senior years at 溏心vlog免费B站 she spent a year in Germany studying at the Technical University at Braunschweig and interning at the global chemical company BASF.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt was absolutely the best year of my life,\u201d said the Tolman High School graduate. \u201cI was there with all the best friends I\u2019ve made here at 溏心vlog免费B站, I loved the cultural experience and learning the German language, and I traveled almost every weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAt BASF, she worked on a research project to evaluate the company\u2019s supply chain and its numerous manufacturing plants to optimize and economize their operation. \u201cIt was different from what I expected,\u201d Bellows said, \u201cbut I used a lot of the tools that I learned on the job in my senior design class this year, so it was useful and gave me really good experience.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tHer internship was not her first research experience. During the summer following her freshman year at 溏心vlog免费B站, Bellows studied the chemicals used in flame-retardants \u2013 polybromiated diphenyl ethers — to learn how they are released into the environment. A year later she used computer modeling to study hydrogen production in fuel cells.<\/p>\n


\n\tThis latter project helped convince her that she wanted to pursue a career conducting computational chemical engineering research, a field in which mathematical models and computer algorithms are used to collect data when it\u2019s too difficult to collect data through traditional experimentation. Bellows has been accepted into a doctoral program at Princeton University to continue her education in this field.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe project I\u2019m most interested in at Princeton is looking at complex biological systems where it\u2019s very difficult to collect data experimentally, and taking a different approach by formulating equations to simulate the complexities of the human biological system,\u201d explained Bellows, who was awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship in 2004, the most prestigious national scholarship for undergraduate students studying science and engineering. At commencement ceremonies, she will also be presented with the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Engineering\u2019s Nelson M. White Award, for creativity in engineering.<\/p>\n


\n\tWhen she first enrolled at 溏心vlog免费B站, she wasn\u2019t convinced she had made the right college choice, but she was quickly convinced. \u201cI\u2019m really glad about my decision,\u201d she concluded. \u201cI\u2019ve had a fantastic time, I enjoyed learning German, and my year abroad was more than I could have ever imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau photo by Michael Salerno Photography.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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