<span style="color:#000000;">'''Serving as a UIF Since:''' Spring 2017<br />'''School:''' Kettering University<br />'''What she does now:''' </span>Technical Leader<span style="color:#000000;">, Corteva AgriScience<br />'''What that means:''' Focuses on ways to improve and harness classical chemical engineering to support development of new agricultural products from synthetic and biological pathways.</span>
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<span style="color:#000000;">Ashley is a University Innovation Fellow from Kettering University in Flint, MI. She is graduated in December 2018 with her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a Course of Study in Innovation to Entrepreneurship. Kettering University operates on a rotating three month basis between co-op and academic terms which allows students to graduate with 2.5 years of work experience. Ashley has worked for a variety of companies with focuses in biologic applications for plastic materials to agricultural product biofermentation. </span>
<span style="color:#000000;">At Kettering University, Ashley is involved with a variety of clubs on campus including Kettering Entrepreneur Society. Kettering has become a second home for Ashley and it is rare not to catch her at an event on campus. She also spends her free time playing intramural sports and working on miscellaneous projects in the university's t.space. Most recently she has been part of starting up the first professional co-ed fraternity on campus, Alpha Chi Sigma, which is focused on promoting the sciences in academia and industry.</span>