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VICKI: "The Undergraduate Research Program at Keystone College is designed to allow
students to take what they learn in the classroom
and take it one step further and explore ideas that excite them in a particular topic area."
STEPHEN: "Participating in Undergraduate Research allowed me to really stretch my boundaries,
of what I'm able to do in a classroom, to what I'm able to do
as an undergaduate researcher.
My project is entitled,
'Structural Modification of
Gentimicin Provides a Newly Derived Antibiotic,'
and what gave me the idea is
from doing a lot of reading
and taking several classes,
I came up with the idea that
modifying the structure of the antibiotic gentimicin would allow
the different interaction with bacteria to
basically
kill them easier than
traditional things like Penicillin and Amoxicillin."
KAYLEIGH: "My project deals with, once the body is decomposing, they're certain chemicals that should leak into the soil,
and if there is a certain concentration of these chemicals in the soil, than you should be able to relate that
to how long the body's been there for the post-mortem interval, which is the time from when the body has passed away
to the time you came across it."
VICKI: "Going out into the workforce
gives them a leg-up because they've done some of the,
they have the skill sets they need
to step right in to a job in the work force."
STEPHEN: "My attempts to get into graduate school so far have been
successful. So,
I think being able to have that background doing undergraduate research and doing this project really
sets me ahead of other people who haven't been able to do something like this."
VICKI: "A student can have an original idea
and approach a faculty member about mentoring them,
and developing that project.
Or they could work with a faculty member on a project that the
faculty member already has going."
KAYLEIGH: "I really liked working
with my mentor, I actually had more than one, like I mentioned Dr. Joe Falcone,
he helped me with the chemistry aspect. I also had help from Dr. Cook who helped me with the enviornmental aspect,
and then Tammi Barette, my forensics teacher, obviously helped with the forensics aspect."
VICKI: "I enjoy it, I enjoy the one on one interaction, I get to know them very, very
well and
it allows me to help them to get into graduate school, it allows me to help
them get a job, and I get to
learn so much more about them, that we get to be very, very close."
STEPHEN: "I loved it.
That's why I'm doing it, because I like it so much.
I spent
sometimes 12 hours here,
staring at a test tube, but
it's all worth it in the end."