MADDY HANNAPPEL Ph.D., Biological Sciences (’23)
BILL GLAZE FELLOW | 2023
Maddy earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from Texas Christian University and planned to attend medical school. Her honors program required her to complete a research project, and she chose an ecological path, studying contamination in spiders. Maddy’s research demonstrated the intersection of industry and science in two ways – (1) measuring the health of the ecosystem in a contaminated site and (2) encouraging pesticide companies to target the bad bugs and not the goods ones. She continued her research through her master's program at TCU and for her Ph.D. at UNT. The Bill Glaze Fellowship enabled Maddy to focus on writing her dissertation during the summer instead of having to teach courses or work in the lab to pay for living expenses. This fellowship enabled her to complete her Ph.D. in a timely manner. It also positioned her for a subsequent three-year paid research position at the California Academy of Science, which provided an additional $20,000 toward research. Following her post doc, Maddy plans to pursue a teaching/research position at a liberal arts school that would allow her to teach 50% of the time.
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