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Keira Scott

  • Undergraduate Researcher (NSF REU)

Keira is an NSF summer REU student visiting Pitt from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN.  She spent the summer of 2026 working with PhD student, Carlan Gary, on sodium alginate films for reducing plastic waste in the ocean.  Specifically, Keira worked to formulate a coating to act as a water vapor barrier.