Mohra: It is bittersweet to be writing this farewell blog post. I have enjoyed being a part of the Locomotion Lab for the past two and a half years, and hope to keep in touch with everyone after I graduate in May. I am so grateful for the feedback and support from the lab throughout my first research experience this year. For those of you who do not know, I researched shoulder muscle activity in string musicians for my senior comprehensive. Next year, I will be pursuing a master's degree and staying in the midwest. I hope to get my personal training certification soon and pursue PT school sometime in the future. With that, I will sign off. Wishing everyone a happy end to the semester and a great summer!
Hannah: A lot has been happening as senior year is coming to an end. After applying to veterinary school I, unfortunately, was not offered admission this year. Not the best news, but veterinary school admission is tough and I will be applying again next year so fingers crossed! In the meantime, I plan on getting more experience and potentially broadening my experience to include large animals as well. I have started applying for different jobs, but my main goal is to focus on this last semester to end on a good note in addition to getting my research ready for publication. I’m so excited to see what the future holds and am so thankful for my time at Saint Mary’s, especially my time in Dr. Young’s lab. Valerie: My time here at Saint Mary’s is quickly coming to an end. As the last few weeks are approaching, I have found myself reflecting on the experiences that Saint Mary’s that have prepared me for my next steps. My fieldwork experience last summer collecting data on squirrel morphology and acoustic behavior with Dr. Young and Dr. Kloepper reaffirmed my desire to pursue a career in biological research. This coming August, I will be attending graduate school at the University of New Hampshire where I will be pursuing my Master’s in Biology. I will be working with Dr. Kloepper on a research project using acoustics to estimate the population size of bats, penguins, and frogs! I would like to sincerely thank Dr. Young and the Locomotion Lab for adopting me for my last semester at Saint Mary’s and for supporting me through these last few months at Saint Mary’s. Adrienne: Hi everyone! Graduation feels especially bittersweet as I'm having to say goodbye to two amazing schools and groups of people at once. I'm so honored and grateful to have been adopted into the Young and Kloepper Labs last year; it has been such a wonderful and rewarding experience. I never could have imagined that my summer at Saint Mary's would have given me the opportunity to work on three separate wildlife projects, present a poster at SICB, potentially publish my research (stay tuned!), and meet some of the best people I've had the pleasure of working with. I learned about the realities of field work - good and bad, the importance of being adaptable, what goes into developing and executing a research project, and so much more. I am also forever grateful to this experience for helping me realize that my true passion lies in wildlife research, although engineering will always have a special place in my heart. Next year, I'll be attending the University of Michigan to pursue my Master's in Ecosystem Science and Management and continue along the path of wildlife and conservation research. I'm incredibly excited for this next stage, and I also have several amazing opportunities in the next few months before I start up school again. As I'm writing this I'm getting ready to head off to Greece for a month to study dolphins in the Aegean Sea, and over the summer I'll be studying abroad in Tanzania with a carnivore conservation program! Thank you so much to Dr. Young, Dr. Kloepper, Hannah and Valerie, and everyone else that made Saint Mary's feel like home. I truly couldn't have asked for a better team or a better undergraduate research experience. Much love to all! |
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