Biography

Richard Doty (CLAS, 2019) graduated with a degree in Statistics. In 2016, Richard earned the College Science Scholars Summer Stiped to develop educational protocols in the chemistry department for measuring the fluorescent half-life of ruby crystals. He also created an algorithm to find numeric solutions to systems of partial differential equations modeling the reaction rates of compounds within a mixture. In 2017 and 2018, he wrote a software program to analyze images of blood vessel networks and created 3D models of cellular structures within tissues in the Peirce-Cottler lab, contributing to four published papers. Richard will be attending Duke University to earn a PhD in biostatistics.