{"id":1699,"date":"2014-01-14T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T23:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2014-01-14T15:59:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T23:59:38","slug":"undergraduate-quarter-winter-2014-stefan-lucchini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2014\/01\/14\/undergraduate-quarter-winter-2014-stefan-lucchini\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate of the Quarter – Winter 2014 – Stefan Lucchini"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stefan was born in Indiana where he lived for his first six years. He subsequently moved around (Florida then British Columbia then Washington DC) before finally settling in the Lake Oswego area 16 years ago. \u00a0He wanted to come to OSU to take advantage of our in-state tuition and because he was interested in research. \u00a0 He has a deep commitment to giving back to society – believing that we exist for the sake of making societal progress (the idealized world of “Star Trek\u201d). At OSU, he has been surprised how much the professors will do to foster his growth. \u00a0He has worked particularly closely with Distinguished Emeritus Professor Darrah Thomas and Distinguished Professor Doug Keszler – commenting \u201cI was surprised how important I was to them\u2026 they have been insanely supportive.\u201d in fact, his life-long goal is to \u201cfollow in the footsteps of Dr. Ken Hedberg and Dr. Thomas by continuing to do research as long as possible.\u201d \u00a0His favorite courses so far have been in the Physical Chemistry series and his favorite professor has been Professor Wei Kong. \u00a0Professor Kong \u201cstays true to the material, doesn\u2019t dumb it down – very pure.\u201d Stefan is already following through on his commitment to giving back to society by serving as an Undergrad Research Ambassador. He gives talks to new students to get them excited about science. \u00a0Once he graduates he plans to get a masters degree in Chemistry before pursuing his PhD. \u00a0After school he would like to first work in industry (his dream job is working at Intel), but would like to end his career as a professor. \u00a0Stefan\u2019s energy, passion and excitement are infectious. It is students like him that make OSU an amazing place and we congratulate Stefan for all his hard work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stefan was born in Indiana where he lived for his first six years. He subsequently moved around (Florida then British Columbia then Washington DC) before finally settling in the Lake Oswego area 16 years ago. \u00a0He wanted to come to OSU to take advantage of our in-state tuition and because he was interested in research.… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1235743],"tags":[199133,187040,187042,199132,187034],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-undergraduate-of-the-quarter","tag-darrah-thomas","tag-doug-keszler","tag-ken-hedberg","tag-stefan-lucchini","tag-undergraduate-of-the-quarter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}