Samantha received her B.S. in Chemistry from Washburn University, Topeka, KS in 2015. She is currently a second year Ph.D student at The University of California, Riverside in mechanical engineering under advisement of Dr. Masaru Rao. Her research focus is toward the development of hollow, out-of-plane, titanium microneedle devices for the transdermal delivery of optical clearing agents and other medical applications. She was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2016.