Former PE Volunteer and Co-Coord Yiran Liu, a 2017 LSA graduate, has been nominated for the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships! Yiran majored in cellular and molecular biology and minored in law, justice, and social change, and is currently a research technician.
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Yiran Liu has been selected by Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program to join their pioneer cohort of scholars this year! The Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program at Stanford aims to prepare a new generation of global leaders with a deep academic foundation and the skills to develop creative solutions and effect positive change in the world. As a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Yiran will receive full funding for up to three years of graduate education at Stanford and participate in a variety of supplementary programs to develop her future leadership skills. Yiran plans to pursue a PhD in cancer biology at Stanford School of Medicine.Previously, Yiran has done research at the UM Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, and Columbia University Medical Center. While a student at U-M, Yiran won the as a leading future STEM reesarcher, led the peer education program at the and served on various advisory boards to Student Life. Her work has been published in Immunity and The FASEB Journal.
Yiran was also from the U-M this year!Read about Yiran.Learn more about the.