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Leben Kawaguchi

Co-President

Graduation Year: 2025
Major: Chemistry
Hobbies: Cooking bomb food, Hiking in SoCo, Chess puzzles
Experience:
"I'm a super friendly and approachable person (even over zoom!) Feel free to reach out to me at my email if you have any questions about CURIE, research, or just chemistry in general. I hope that you all have a great semester and that hopefully I can see you all in person soon!"

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Lariana Cline

Co-President

Graduation Year: 2024
Major: Chemistry
Hobbies: A
Experience: A

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Vania Rachel

Senior Advisor

Graduation Year: 2022
Major: Chemical Engineering
Hobbies: Drawing, baking (and giving it away), and watching Youtube
Experience: URAP: Professor Waqas Khalid in UCB Physics (Spring 2020-Present),
BLUR Summer intern 2021 with Dr. Jeffrey Urban
"I'm fairly new to UCB as a transfer student and CURIE helped me a lot with getting into research! I hope you can learn a lot and enjoy our DeCal also :) I know tidbits of a lot of things (KPop, anime, gaming, etc.) from talking to people, so hit me up if you need a friend!"

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Ariel Wang

External Vice President, Mentor Trainer

Graduation Year: 2023
Major: Chemical Biology
Hobbies: A
Experience: A

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Leben Kawaguchi

Internal Vice President

Graduation Year: 2025
Major: Chemical Biology
Hobbies: A
Experience: A

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