{"id":105871,"date":"2026-05-17T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.coe.drexel.edu\/mse\/nanomaterials\/?p=105871"},"modified":"2026-05-17T15:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:12:28","slug":"a-materials-scientist-who-refuses-to-be-just-one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.coe.drexel.edu\/mse\/nanomaterials\/2026\/05\/a-materials-scientist-who-refuses-to-be-just-one-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Materials Scientist Who Refuses to Be Just One Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"105871\" class=\"elementor elementor-105871\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3199214 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3199214\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cefc653\" data-id=\"cefc653\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b84bb6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7b84bb6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>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\u2019ll add another identity to her dossier: the undergraduate commencement speaker for the Drexel University College of Engineering&#8217;s Class of 2026<\/p><p>Read more <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drexel.edu\/engineering\/news-events\/news\/archive\/2026\/May\/alessandra-cabrera-undergraduate-commencement-speaker\/\">here<\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drexel.edu\/engineering\/news-events\/news\/archive\/2026\/May\/alessandra-cabrera-undergraduate-commencement-speaker\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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