Halle Block presented two projects at the Student Showcase on April 16, 2024, Bioplastic Decomposition and Compost Fertility, and Axolotl Cell Shape Analysis During Tissue Spreading. Block is a senior major in Physics and president of the Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society. Named Stetson's outstanding graduating senior in Physics, she has been accepted at Purdue University to pursue a doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering on a full fellowship, starting this fall. At Purdue, Block will be researching and developing innovative, sustainable materials. In her first Showcase project, she examined the benefits of eco-friendly product alternatives as solutions to the plastic pollution crisis. The second project studied the thinning and spreading of tissue collected from axolotl embryos as part of a larger study on the physics that underlies the vast cell and tissue movements during early development.

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