Shorewood grad featured by MIT

Jolene Mork at MIT
Photo: Denis Paiste/Materials Processing Center

Jolene Mork, a 2006 Shorewood graduate and Shoreline Chamber of Commerce “Dollars-for-Scholars” scholarship recipient, was featured in a January 12 feature from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology describing her work there studying energy transfer in quantum dots — nanocrystals so small that they exhibit quantum-mechanical properties.

The article describing her work, was sent as a press release and posted to MIT’s Facebook page and Twitter feed.

Read the article here.

Jolene was an Intel Talent Search finalist her senior year at Shorewood. She attended Carleton College, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in chemistry and physics. She earned a master’s in organic chemistry at MIT, and expects to earn her doctorate in 2016 in physical chemistry.