DAES Senior Shares Her Story of Resiliency Following Hurricane Maria

Kayleen Torres Maldonado displays the Puerto Rican flag in front of her research at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in Boston, January 2020.

Nearly 2,000 miles away from campus, Kayleen Torres Maldonado virtually shared two semester’s worth of findings on Hurricane Igor from her bedroom earlier this month.

Presenting her thesis via video conference call in the midst of a global pandemic was not what she envisioned, but the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (DAES) senior is used to unexpected challenges.