Hello, everyone! I hope that you had a relaxing fall break and you and your families have been remaining healthy. My name is Caroline Kopack and I am a senior at Saint Mary’s College. I heard about Dr. Young and her lab’s work when I was a freshman and as of this semester, I have been working in Dr. Young’s Locomotion Lab for over three years. I am so happy to be involved in expanding the goals of the ACL research project, especially the data we are hoping to gather this semester. As a former athlete that suffered from several ankle, knee, and hip injuries, the ACL project and the research conducted by the Locomotion Lab seemed like a natural choice. Dr. Young and my fellow students have encouraged me to get outside of my comfort zone and expand my scope of research to include projects that I never would have considered, such as the turtle limb bone scaling project. I am currently working towards completing the final few semesters of a major in biology with an emphasis on molecular biology. I am also working towards a minor in Spanish. After Saint Mary’s, I plan to take a gap year to apply to medical school and gain more work experience before going to medical school to study internal medicine and specialize in sports medicine.
There are several exciting changes that we have implemented to the ACL project that we started implementing last semester and are currently continuing. Last semester, we expanded our research parameters to include college-age male and female students from Holy Cross College and Notre Dame University, in addition to gathering data from new Saint Mary's College participants. It is our hope that adding these participants from the tri-campus community will allow us to compare knee function across men and women with and without a history of ACL injury. I am excited to be working with Dr. Young, the ACL team, and the other members of the Locomotion Lab to take our research in a new and exciting direction. I am also looking forward to seeing how this research will be continued and expanded on by incoming Locomotion Lab members that are interested in assuming control of the project after I graduate. Hi everyone! I am so excited to announce that I have officially started collecting data for my senior comp project. I am looking at the ACL and the different impact of landing surfaces on the ACL. We have been pretty busy with appointments for participants so far which has been great! I am hoping to wrap up data collection by the end of the month, as long as I have enough participants, so that I can start analyzing my data. In addition, I recently took the GRE and I am looking at graduate schools for a physician assistant program.
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February 2024
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