Graves Lecture Series to conclude Tuesday
CHADRON – The spring Graves Lecture Series at Chadron State College will conclude April 2 with speaker senior Emmanuella Tchona of the Republic of Benin. The event will be in the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center at 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Tchona will present A Path to Graduate School: Research Opportunities offered at CSC. Tchona is a senior who plans to graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry.
She is an Nebraska Institutional Development Award Program (IDeA) Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) scholar. As such, she had the opportunity for field research ranging from medicinal and organic chemistry to biochemistry and cancer biology. After graduate school she plans to pursue a career in scientific research.
Tchona is also a tutor in math and science, speaks fluent French, and enjoys cooking. She has been the president of the CSC International Club for three years. She will graduate in May and enter a doctoral program at the Medical College of Wisconsin in the fall.
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