Meiqin Gao

Undergraduate Student (August 2023–present)
University of Rochester, Class of 2024

Email: mgao15@u.rochester.edu

I was born and grew up in the southern countryside of China until I was 11, when I moved to NYC. I went to Fordham University during my first year and then transferred to UR. I found Chemistry challenging but fascinating, and I constantly desire to learn more about reaction mechanisms. For the past summer, I did a plastic recycling REU program at SUNY University at Buffalo and learned about the upcycling of polyethylene by functionalizing LLDPE. A fun fact was we went to a zoo with no animal on a Friday night (when Buffalo Zoo’s Zoomagination was happening, there was no animal). During my free time, I love playing card games such as UNO, ERS, Monopoly, etc.