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Lauren N. Grant - was raised in Orange County in Southern California. After graduating from Aliso Niguel High School, she attended UC Berkeley, where she obtained her B.S. in Chemistry. While at Berkeley, Lauren conducted undergraduate research under the mentorship and direction of Professor John Arnold. In the Arnold group, she investigated small molecule activation and transformation via niobium imido complexes. She also conducted research on novel routes to niobium nitride complexes derived from azide precursors through photochemical pathways. In her research, Lauren was awarded the Haas Scholars Research Fellowship, Saegabarth Research Award, and was named an NSF Scholar. She was also awarded the ACS Joseph Breen Memorial Fellowship for her research in Green Chemistry, and was able to attend and present at the ACS Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in the summers of 2014 and 2015, as well as the ACS Conference in San Francisco. As an undergraduate, she also had the opportunity to teach General Chemistry as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, which she looks forward to continuing as a graduate student. In June of 2015, Lauren began her pursuit of a doctoral degree in Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in the Mindiola Group. Her research will investigate the isolation and reactivity of neutral nitrides of titanium. In addition, her studies will examine photochemically promoted routes of halide elimination with high-valent and early-transition metals.