CURRENT DISSERTATION FELLOWS - 2012-2013 Pai-Yen Chen Nanoelectronics, Nanophotonics and Nanoelectromagnetics From National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan UT Austin: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   Pai-Yen Chen’s research interests cover different aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology: (1) graphene and other nanocarbon-based future electronic and photonic devices; and (2) energy harvest, information process, sensing, and nonlinear wave mixing based on optical nanoantennas and metamaterials.   Hsiu-Rong Cheng Postpartum Women's Health From Kaoshsiung Medical University, Taiwan UT Austin: School of Nursing   Hsiu-Rong Cheng is currently researching the trajectories of changes in postpartum weight and waist circumference in Taiwanese women. She also wants to examine the effects of pre-pregnant weight, gestational weight gain, parity, and psychosocial factors on postpartum weight retention and postpartum obesity. Cameron Strang History of Science in Early America From University of New Hampshire - Durham UT Austin: Department of History   Cameron B. Strang studies the history of science in early America and its borderlands. He focuses on the production and circulation of knowledge in the former French and Spanish colonies along the Gulf Coast, and how local knowledge in this region shaped both science and territorial expansion in the United States on the whole.