Walk past the Science Classroom on the first floor of the Bachmann Collaboration Building and you might see something different, curious, and slightly soothing. Those are the moon jellies, blissfully floating along in their tanks in Prep’s first-ever Jelly Lab.

Fei Chen is no stranger to breaking down walls. Since she joined associate professor Nikhil Gupta’s Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory as a research student, the NYU Tandon doctoral candidate has been developing pioneering research into 3D printing and cybersecurity.