Colleen Brent

Affiliation

Hunter College and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York

Biography

Colleen Brent is a fifth year graduate student at The Graduate Center of CUNY. She studies under Dr. Lynn Francesconi and Dr. Benjamin Burton-Pye. Her specialties include nanotechnology, materials science, and radiochemistry. Her particular focus includes investigating the capture of the radioactive isotope technetium-99 from aqueous solutions using nanomaterials. She is proud to be a member of the NSF’s IGERT program where she has been given the opportunity to incorporate radioactivity into her work. She previously had an internship at Argonne National Laboratory in the Environmental Science Division.