Hyekyung Yang

Wheeler Trustee Hyekyung Yang, Ph.D. , applies a lifetime to science, discovery, analysis, and—most importantly—caring for humanity to her work on Wheeler’s Board of Trustees.

Dr. Yang’s professional journey started at age 16 when she was selected as one of two from her Seoul, South Korea school to attend a year abroad in America. Her father, a US-trained engineer, encouraged her to see the Midwest rather than megacities such as NY or LA, and she soon found herself alone as the first-ever foreign student in Golden Eagle, Illinois, a rural town of under 1,000 people on the banks of the Mississippi River.