Evan Pepper graduated from the Baskin School of Engineering in spring 2018. Both as a student and after graduating, Evan contributed to UC Santa Cruz research projects that gave him hands-on laboratory experience in the fields of molecular biology and genetics. He credits much of his success and sense of community to the UCSC Academic…

Ikenna Anigbogu graduated from UC Santa Cruz in spring of 2020. During his time at UCSC, he was a Research Mentoring Institute (RMI) scholar, a member of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), a peer mentor for the Black Men’s Initiative (BMI), and an iGEM team member. He currently works as a junior research…