Wendy Yang
American biologist and environmental scientist
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Wendy Yang's Degrees
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Environmental Science Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wendy Yang is an associate professor of Plant Biology and Geology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she works on soil biogeochemistry and ecosystem ecology. Early life and education Yang is from Indialantic, Florida. She became interested in environmental science from an early age when she spent time at an environmental summer camp called Earth Corps at the Brevard Community College following 5th grade. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2003, with a degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy. She then moved to the University of California Berkeley, where she earned her PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management in 2010. For her dissertation, she worked with Whendee Silver on developing different methods to measure nitrogen production in tropical soils, for which she received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.
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