Day: May 17, 2026

  • A Materials Scientist Who Refuses to Be Just One Thing

    A Materials Scientist Who Refuses to Be Just One Thing

    Alessandra Cabrera designs stage backdrops, hosts a podcast, runs a literary journal, and has spent five years studying materials at the atomic level. She is, in other words, not easy to categorize. That is entirely the point. And on June 12, she’ll add another identity to her dossier: the undergraduate commencement speaker for the Drexel…