When Dr. Mary Lauren Benton learned she’d been named a 2025 KEEN Rising Star, the recognition marked a defining moment for both her career and the growing network of women engineers at Baylor.
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“What excites me is the opportunity to help build something that lasts,” Craven said. “We’re not just starting a degree. We’re creating a program that could change how students see engineering and how engineering serves people.”
“The students, I think, are all rising stars,” Jiang said. “I’m always motivated by them — even undergraduate students. Usually, they have a lot of course work but they still are very interested in frontier research so they dedicate a lot of time and effort [to] that.”