Academically speaking, Daniel Mortensen was a “late bloomer” according to his faculty mentor. In Daniel’s own words, chemistry classes are “pretty tough” and “discouraging to a lot of people, myself included.”
But by graduation, Daniel was the lead author of a study published in a respected chemistry journal and he had punched his ticket to one of the world’s top chemistry Ph.D. programs, UC Berkeley.
“BYU allows students to get a lot of hands on experience that isn’t necessarily available anywhere else,” Daniel said.