Lab Alumni
Stella Cook
After graduating from Pitzer College in May 2023, Stella started a position at North Cascades National Park on a Fire Effects Field Crew. The crew travels across Washington State to collect data on prescribed burns and past wildfires. The data contributes to the park's Fire Management Plan that aims to protect the integrity of ecosystems and communities from wildfires. At the end of season at North Cascades, Stella will start a position at Region 9 of the Environmental Protection Agency working in Air and Radiation as part of the Monitoring and Analysis Division. She is very intrigued by the wide range of wildfire effects such as ecological and air quality impacts. At Pitzer College she completed her thesis on the effects of Canadian wildfires on the U.S. Midwest air pollution, launching her into the world of wildfires. She graduated with honors, receiving a B.A. in Environmental Analysis, Environmental Science Track, with a minor in Studio Art.
Tanner Cress
Tanner is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign working under Dr. Martha Gillette. His research focuses on the application of small molecule fluorescent probes to design a platform to measure mitochondrial metabolites and morphology at the neuromuscular junction in healthy and inflamed models. This platform is being designed with the goal of better understanding the links between circadian rhythms, metabolism, and inflammation with the intention that it can be adapted to other cell types.
Elizabeth (Beth) Zeitler, Associate Board Director, Energy and Environmental Systems, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Beth is Associate Director of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Across the Academies, she leads consensus studies to inform government, private, and public sector decisionmakers on key areas of domestic and global energy policy, such as carbon utilization markets, infrastructure and RD&D; technologies for vehicle energy efficiency; the future of the electric system; and technical and policy needs for deep decarbonization. She has previously led and supported projects in the future of electrochemistry, data, modeling and simulation for urban sustainability, electric vehicle deployment and energy resource potential on DOE lands. Beth received her B.A. in Chemistry from Scripps College and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton in 2014, and has previously served as a Christine Mirzayan Fellow at the Academies and as an AAAS STPF Fellow at the U.S. foreign assistance agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Jaclyn Wiggins-Camacho (Scripps, 2004)
Jaclyn currently serves as the director of product for assessments at Macmillan Learning. In this role, she oversees the development and management of the assessment tools in the online learning system, Achieve. Jaclyn spearheads the strategic vision, ensuring alignment with market trends and organizational objectives, including the integration of AI enhancements for improved learning outcomes. Her focus is on innovation, fostering student learning, and supporting instructors' pedagogical goals throughout their use of Achieve. Jaclyn originally joined Macmillan (formerly Sapling Learning) in 2014 to create analytical chemistry questions and curate online courses for instructors.
Jaclyn holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology-Chemistry from Scripps College and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin, where her research focused on the effect of nitrogen doping on the electronic and catalytic properties of carbon nanotube electrode materials. Additionally, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Bureau of Economic Geology and served as the managing director of the EFRC for Understanding Charge Separation and Transfer at Interfaces in Energy Materials. Jaclyn resides in Austin, TX, with her husband and two boys.
Jessica R Chapman, PhD (Scripps, 2003)
Jessica is an Assistant Attending and the Director of the Clinical Proteomics Laboratory within the Hematopathology Service in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The Clinical Proteomics Laboratory was created to develop, validate, and implement mass spectrometry-based proteomics tests that can be performed to assist in the diagnosis and characterization of cancer and allied diseases. She oversees the laboratory operation including staff, workflows, quality control, and patient test resulting, but also participates in research that guides the direction of the laboratory.
Prior to moving to a clinical setting in 2017 Jessica spent six years at the Proteomics Laboratory of NYU Langone Medical Center working her way from Scientist to Assistant Director. She collaborated with a diverse group of scientists and medical providers researching infectious disease, microbiology, and cancer among other specialties. She especially enjoyed the opportunity to help build a team of hard-working scientists.
Jessica earned her B.A. in Biology-Chemistry from Scripps in 2003, M.S. in Chemistry from Duke University in 2005, and PhD in Chemistry from University of Virginia (UVA) in 2010. She also spent an additional year as a postdoctoral fellow at UVA continuing her graduate work in Donald F Hunt’s laboratory and was then a visiting scientist at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia before relocating to NYC in 2012. Jessica recently moved from Manhattan to New Jersey where she lives with her spouse and child.