Angela Barragan Awarded P.E.O International Peace Scholarship and Beckman Fellowship

Illinois Physics grad student Angela Barragan has been awarded both a P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship and a Beckman Graduate Fellowship for the 2015-2016 academic year. The P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship program provides scholarships for selected women to pursue graduate study in the United States and Canada. The Beckman Graduate Fellowship provides support for UIUC graduate students support to pursue interdisciplinary research at the Institute. Angela is a PhD student in the research group of Prof. Klaus Schulten, and her scholarship and fellowship will support her research on a protein complex -- the bc₁ complex -- which is a key player in the bioenergetics of respiratory and photosynthetic energy conversion in eukaryotic cells and purple bacteria.