Dr. Rizalia Klausmeyer Ph.D.
Dr. Klausmeyer was a lecturer here at Baylor from 2000 until 2008 and then a senior lecturer from 2008 until 2013. Associate Director of the Office of Prehealth Studies and Program Director of the Earle Hall Science and Health LLC from 2013-2018. Current Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research where she instructs and directs the students who are currently in the Science Research Fellows Programs.
Q. I am here meeting with Dr. Rizalia Klausmeyer, the Director of Science Research Fellows and Director of Undergraduate Research. Can you please tell me about yourself? A. I was born a long time ago in Puerto Rico, which is a Commonwealth of the United States. It was a regular family. I went to the University of Puerto Rico for my bachelor’s and I got a bachelor’s in chemistry, which I finished in 1991. Right away I came to Texas A&M in College Station in order to get a PhD. in Chemistry. After the PhD., I did what they call a postdoc, but mine was in industry. It was an industrial post-doc because I wanted to actually work for a company and that one was in Deer Park, Houston. So I worked for Roman House, Texas, which is, by the way, the biggest producer of sulfuric acid in the world. They also have a lot of cyanide in there and I used to work with cyanide. Right after I finished that, I got married to Kevin Klausmeyer, who is a professor here and together we went to the University of Illinois in Schempp, Urbana-Champaign. He was doing a postdoc there.
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