Category: Graduation

Presenting our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Makenna Pennel

by on November 22, 2025 3:35 am
The Cargnello group is beyond thrilled and proud to present our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Makenna Pennel! Makenna, a Stanford Chemistry PhD graduate, worked on plastics upcycling and recycling, an emerging yet (extremely) challenging research field. In her dissertation, she developed well-defined colloidal catalysts to probe fundamental plastics degradation processes while discovering new processes to… Read more Presenting our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Makenna Pennel