Isabella Bueno is a master’s student and a Graduate Research assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She obtained her bachelor’s degree at the Federal University of Espírito Santo-Brazil (2021). Her research focuses on the use of waste materials, especially waste plastics, in asphalt mixtures, including materials characterization (chemical, physical, and rheological characteristics) and mechanical laboratory experimentation. Isabella will be presenting her work “Enhancing Cracking, Rutting, and Moisture Damage Resistance Through Dry Method Addition of Polypropylene Waste Plastic” at the 2024 International Society of Asphalt Pavement Conference in Montreal, Canada in June.