Evangeline Su

Ph.D.

Evangeline Su is currently on the staff at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) within the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Education. Evangeline previously held positions at Northwestern University working with student-athletes and undergraduates who are novices to research, facilitating discussions for STEM Circuits, advising the Association for Undergraduate Women in STEM, facilitating sessions on bystander intervention, while helping students to understand and unpack the hidden curriculum of how to navigate R1 (Carnegie classification) universities. 

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From 2016–2021, Su pioneered the use of inclusive, trauma-aware peer mentorship to implement the CIMER Entering Research curricula, improving undergraduate research outcomes by creating a multi-tiered course and program that helped students build self-efficacy, skills, and knowledge to discover their interests and pursue advanced research opportunities. She adapted CIMER’s Entering Mentoring curricula and combined it with active learning/teaching training, leadership training, grant writing training, and other work to develop a state-of-the-art undergraduate research peer mentor training.

Su further adapted the CIMER Mentoring Up curriculum for undergraduate and graduate student applications for use in this pioneer program, providing undergraduates with greater knowledge to achieve their desired career outcomes. Many students from that program have gone on to win DAAD-RISE, NSF GRFP, Goldwater, NIH IRTA, Amgen, Erasmus, and Marshall scholarships/fellowships. Student alumni rated the program as one of their top three undergraduate experiences and repeatedly cited it as an example of inclusive teaching. Alumni from this program have continued the work to increase and improve culturally aware research mentorship through peer leadership at their respective institutions around the world. 

Su has also worked in industry at Imbibe and Impossible Objects, the latter of which included co-invention of a Method and Apparatus for Automated Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing (patent 10,046,552 granted August 14, 2018).

Su earned a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry for a novel UV Raman spectro-microscopy instrument for probing tribological interfaces, an M.S. in Chemistry for inorganic synthesis of catalytic materials from Northwestern University and an A.B. in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton University.