Shorewood grad receives PhD in chemistry

Rachel Botham

Rachel Botham, 2005 graduate of Shorewood High School, just earned a PhD in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Champaign/ Urbana.

She will soon be starting as a post-doctoral research assistant at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.

At Champaign/Urbana she worked on an anti-cancer drug that makes the standard drugs more effective. The drug went to first level human trials.