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VIDEO: From first-generation dreamer to future innovator

Here at WVU, you can take an idea and turn it into a potentially world-changing reality.

Raphael Olumide Oladokun, a doctoral student in chemical and biomedical engineering at the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, is proof of that.

Oladokun’s goal is to develop a device to detect early-stage breast cancer in women.

“As a first-generation student, I always wanted to take good advantage of all the opportunities around me,” he said.

“From being a student to becoming a professional engineer, it’s something that has really reshaped me and also gave me a pipeline I could follow in order to achieve my dream.”

Watch his story.

Read more about Oladokun’s research work at WVUToday.