Petrovic earns Master’s at Rice University

Rachelle M. Petrovic, received her Master’s Degree in  Science, Environmental Analysis and Decision Making on May 10, 2008.   She is the recipient of the  Professional Science Master’s Scholarship, the Association on American Indian  Affairs’ Sequoyah Graduate Fellowship, NIEA’s John C. Rouillard and Alice  Tonemah Memorial Scholarship, Seneca Nation/Bureau of Indian Affairs  Scholarships, American Indian Graduate Center’s Graduate Fellowship and Rainer Fellowship as well as the American Science & Science & Engineering  Society’s A.T. Anderson Memorial Scholarship.

She received her Bachelor of Art Degree in Chemistry in 2003 also from  Rice University in Houston Texas and also attended Oberlin College, Ohio where she met her husband, Zeljko.  Rachelle will continue to work with  Element Markets, LLC in Sugar  Land, Texas as a  Technology Associate performing comprehensive technical and economic  evaluation of renewable energy technologies.

Rachelle worked for the Carbon  Nanotechnologies, Lynntech, Inc and Celanese Chemicals as a researcher.

She is a member of the Society Indigenous Alumni and the American  Indian Student Association at Rice, the American Indian Science and  Engineering Society, Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native  Americans in Science, the National Indian Education Association and the AIGC National American Indian Professional Association.

Rachelle (Tarbell) is a graduate of Gowanda Central School, Class of 1999 and the daughter  of Agnes Williams, Cattaraugus Seneca and Paul (Sonny) Tarbell, Akwesasne Mohawk.  She is the mother of Kate Fay and  Alexander Basil Petrovic and the sister of Sadowah Tarbell and Josephine Pierce. She is the granddaughter of Myra Rita Williams and the late Basil  Williams and the late Harvey and Genevieve Tarbell. Congratulations  Rachelle for your great accomplishments, you make us all proud.