/undergrad-research/ en /undergrad-research/blog/2022/09/day-life-undergraduate-researching-ovarian-cancer This past summer I worked on a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) through the Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research with my mentor... Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000 /undergrad-research/177 /undergrad-research/blog/2022/07/finding-what-you-are-passionate-about During my two years at Â鶹Éç that I have pursued research in biochemistry, I have learned the importance of exploring different options to find the work I am passionate about. I decided to pursue lab work because I was interested in it as a career path and wanted to make sure I enjoyed it. I worked in a plant genomics lab starting in my second semester at the Â鶹Éç, continuing over the summer after being granted an Undergraduate Research Award (URA), and into the fall of my sophomore year. Working with Dr. Estelle Hrabak, I was testing the effectiveness of three ways to fix a root growth defect in Arabidopsis thaliana. I enjoyed working in the lab and I learned new techniques, how to troubleshoot when experiments were not going the way I wanted them to, and how to approach scientific writing. But it became evident to me that I wanted to pursue a different career path in human medicine and I needed to make a change in the type of research I was doing. Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000 /undergrad-research/155 /undergrad-research/blog/2021/12/how-i-got-involved-research-what-it-meant-me When I came to Â鶹Éç I knew I wanted to pursue a degree in biochemistry but I had no idea what direction I wanted to take for that degree. I loved science labs in high school and was fascinated by the topics I was learning about. These topics included how cells function and what jobs different parts of the cell do. Chemical reactions also really fascinated me. I liked figuring out the steps of a reaction and what caused them. Being able to figure out an unknown and work as a team to solve problems was exciting and new to me. Tue, 07 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000 /undergrad-research/163