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Dr. Berkowitz is my Phd advisor and I've been working in
his lab for the past few years.
He's been a wonderful mentor. He's very enthusiastic
for teaching and he has a wide and a deep knowledge
of chemistry and that's really helped me grow as a young chemist.
We pride ourselves on being a very research active department
yet with research groups that are relatively small so the
faculty member really gets to know the student.
I have one collaboration with Creighton University
and another with UNMC.
We're really excited about the inter-disciplinary boundaries,
the chemistry/biology interface and the chemistry/materials
interface on the other side.
We're trying to develop new antibiotics.
I think it's very important because the bacteria resistance has surged
in the last few years. If we can really develop some new
antibiotics it can be used to treat those resistant bacteria.
After I graduate, I'll probably do a post-doc in Europe
and after that I will try to find an academic job in
the United States or in China. I think our graduate
program is excellent. You can do cutting edge research here.
I think it's challenging, but also the faculty and staff are very helpful.
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