- Andrea Goertzen, of Fort Collins, Colorado, is graduating this spring with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and minors in Spanish and mathematics. She is an undergraduate researcher in the Systems and Synthetic Biology Lab under Rajib Saha, where she works on projects investigating metabolic adaptations of various diseases. Goertzen is a member of Engineering Ambassadors, where she gives presentations at local schools to pique students’ interest in engineering, and president of the UNL chapter of Engineers Without Borders. She plans to pursue a doctoral degree in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
