Shannon Stoffel received a Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California, Davis in March 2016 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemistry at Notre Dame, Indiana beginning in Fall 2016. She has lab experience using analytical equipment such as Raman Spectroscopy, Mass Spectroscopy, Infrared Spectroscopy, H1 NMR, C13 NMR, and 2D spectroscopy correlation from internships at Hewlett-Packard and has held leadership roles with community service organizations.