Olive Jung, STEM Scholar

STEM Scholarship, 2012

Major(s): Chemistry, (She is planning legal studies as an adjunct major)

School:  Weinberg College of Arts and Science

Hometown:  Foster City, California

Olive is interested in biochemistry and nanotechnology.  Her long range goal is “to be a scientist

who is not just concerned with concepts and lab research, but someone with awareness about the ethics of research that can possibly impact the society.”  She is in the NU Bioscientists program and earned praise for her research proposal and lab work this winter in the Science Research Preparation course.  This fall she will be a facilitator to incoming freshman for the NU Bioscientists program.  Music is another interest of hers--she plays the violin in the Northwestern Philharmonia.  (Any Northwestern student may audition for this orchestra).

After graduation and before pursuing advanced degrees, she would like to work for an NGO

in the global health field. This summer she is doing research in Professor Silverman’s lab. 

From Wikipedia

Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) is a legally constituted organization created by natural or legal persons that operates independently from any form of government. The term originated from the United Nations (UN), and is normally used to refer to organizations that are not a part of the government and are not conventional for-profit business. In the cases in which NGOs are funded totally or partially by governments, the NGO maintains its non-governmental status by excluding government representatives from membership in the organization.

* “NU Bioscientists Program Overview

NU Bioscientists is a program for 30 incoming freshman who are excited about doing independent research in the biological/biomedical sciences.  NU Bioscientists students will take two specially-designed courses their freshman year to provide background and preparation for doing research, and will identify a laboratory and mentor for independent study during the summer following the freshman year.  The students in the program will form a community of peers who will be advised and mentored by the nuViBE Director and will continue to share research experiences through their upperclass years at Northwestern.”

From the nuViBE web site, Northwestern University Ventures in Biology Education

For additional information, here is the link to Olive Jung on the NU Bioscientists web site.

www.nuvibe.northwestern.edu/bioscientist/contact-details/?contact=104

 

Update submitted by Olive Jung on September 11, 2023

"Staying not too far from her initial desires to pursue legal studies adjunct major at the time of the fellowship, Olive is now a Master in Law (ML) degree candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School where she is learning about the legal framework that defines and dictates how the healthcare system will be legislated, executed and reviewed in the US. She recently completed her doctoral studies (DPhil) at the University of Oxford where she had developed flow-based, 3-dimensional blood-brain barrier (BBB) models to investigate the biomechanics of ultrasound-mediated BBB opening. She will be heading back to Case Western Reserve School of Medicine for her clinical clerkships once she completes her ML degree.

 

As a physician-scientist-in-training, she is passionate about Asian-American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (AA&NHPI) representation at the leadership levels within the STEM field, as well as equity for black, indigenous, persons of color (BIPOC) communities for health and medical care. She has spent time on the AA&NHPI employment engagement portfolio committee at the NIH EDI office, and has also volunteered as a College Bridge Writing program tutor for the Petey Greene Program DC chapter during the pandemic."