Duke University

Following my sophomore year in high school, I was hungry to apply the skills I had learned in calculus and engineering to real world problems. I secured a summer internship with Professor Gurav Sant’s Laboratory for the Chemistry of Construction Materials, a Civil and Environmental Engineering Lab at UCLA. The lab’s focus is to make building materials more sustainable. When I joined the lab, their primary project was to design a concrete that can sequester CO2. My individual research project, which aimed to solve a part of the problem, focused on the dissolution kinetics of calcite to better…