What's the story behind April Kloxin's beaming smile? There are great reasons both professionally and personally, as you'll find out in the following Q & A.
This past spring, the assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering won two of the most prestigious awards available to researchers in the early stages of their careers: a four-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, which supports integrated research and education projects by outstanding teacher-scholars; and a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences award, for which she will receive $240,000 in research funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts.