PAWcast: Valedictorian Erik Medina ’25 on the Chemistry of Plastics

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On this episode of the PAWcast, Princeton valedictorian Erik Medina ’25 talks about majoring in chemistry and his thesis, for which he researched ways to upcycle plastics. Erik has been accepted into a Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but first he’s taking a year off to teach at his old high school near Miami.

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