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Education
2012 (Expected) Ph.D. History, Stanford University
2010 (Expected) M.S. Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
2009 M.A. History, Stanford University
2006 B.A. History and Latin American Studies, Oberlin College


Honors and Awards
2010-present The Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program Dissertation Fellowship
2007-present Distinguished Departmental Scholar, Department of History, Stanford University
2009-2010 Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation Graduate Fellowship Program
2007-2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2006 Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors in History, Comfort Starr Prize in History, Oberlin College


Publications
(In Review) Jonathan L. Payne, Mindi Summers, Brianna Rego, Demir Altiner, Wei Jiayong, Yu Youyi, and Daniel J. Lehrmann, "Early and Middle Triassic trends in diversity, evenness, and size of foraminifers on a carbonate platform in south China: Implications for tempo and mode of biotic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction"
2009 Brianna Rego, "The Polonium Brief: A Hidden History of Cancer, Radiation and the Tobacco Industry," Isis, 2009 100:453-484 PDF


Presentations
2009 "It Has the Potential of Waking a Sleeping Giant:" The Tobacco Industry's Private Debate on Publishing Internal Polonium Research, presented at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ
2008 Sediments of the Himalayas, Tailings of the Triumph Mine: Tracing Arsenic Through Mines, Mountains, and Groundwater, presented at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 The Polonium Brief: A Hidden History of Cancer, Radiation and the Tobacco Industry, presented at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA


University Service and Professional Experience
2009-2010 Graduate Admissions Committee Member, Department of History, Stanford University
2007-2008 Graduate Studies Committee Member, Department of History, Stanford University
2007-2008 Department of History Graduate Student Representative, Stanford University
2007-2008 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Stanford University
2006-2008 Stanford University Libraries Special Collections, survey of Stephen Jay Gould archive and collections
2004-2006 Teaching Assistant, Department of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College


Other Experiences
2008-Present Photographer, Sun Valley Summer Symphony and Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley, Idaho
2006-2009 Professional Figure Skater, Sun Valley Summer Ice Show, Sun Valley, Idaho
2009 Photographer, Special Olympics World Winter Games, Idaho, USA
2005 Photographer, Holmul Archaeological Project, Peten, Guatemala



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