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SOPHIA L. CAI · Chemical & Engineering News · 2014
Jendai E. Robinson has always been a tinkerer. From a young age, she would spend time at the auto shop where her dad worked. She’d watch him take engines apart and electroplate car parts. He’d watch her test radios and set up circuits to pinpoint dead headlights. “Without telling me, he had me doing physics at age seven,” she recalls. Now a second-year chemistry Ph.D. student at the University of Cincinnati, Robinson still tinkers with chemistry and physics but on a smaller scale. With the financial support of the National Aeronautic & Space Administration’s Harriett G. Jenkins Predoctoral Fellowship, she works in the lab to fabricate carbon nanofibers for biosensing applications. Her tinkering skills have even earned her internships at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. This September in New Orleans, Robinson got to share her enthusiasm for science with fellow chemists at the 41st annual meeting of ...