Undergraduate Student Stories

  • Schuyler Bentzel

    Schuyler Bentzel

    I’m working/volunteering in multiple types of physical therapy settings, allowing me to use what I’m learning in the lab to see what kind of implications that information may have in a clinical setting.

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  • Nicole Bisel

    Nicole Bisel

    Neurological Damage During the second semester of my freshman year of college, I took a CURO gateway seminar which introduced me to a few different lab groups interested in stem cell research. After attending Dr. Stice’s discussion of biobots in spring 2014, I became associated with the RBC and found my place in Dr. Karumbaiah’s…

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  • Cali Callaway

    Cali Callaway

    A Turning Point There was my hand. Floating in the chasm between myself and the man in front of me. I was frozen with embarrassment. I interned at Shepherd Center a week before I met my first patient. Casey, the occupational therapist under whom I worked, arranged the introduction before their therapy session. “Nigel, this…

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  • Piyush Joshi

    Piyush Joshi

    Be a MentorI would like to attend graduate school which will provide me with the tools I need to achieve my overall goals of helping treat neurodegenerative diseases and becoming a professor at a university to teach and mentor aspiring students.

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  • Jessica Gladney

    Jessica Gladney

    Without research, we as a society cannot expand and improve. A trend seen throughout history. As new scientific research becomes mainstream, society as a whole moves forward into a new cultural norm. I do not do things in half measures. Once I commit, I give it everything. If I do not know the answer, I…

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