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[music] Dr. Barrie Bode: Evan’s become so integrated
into our research program in my lab. He has learned more about scientific research, I
think, in the last year than more students learn in their entire four years.
Dr. Kristen Borre: He sits in front, he’s very active.
Dr. Marc Adler: Through his questions and through his attentiveness and eagerness he
can definitely influence the tone of the class.
Bode: Evan’s project's large goal is to identify unique metabolic properties of cancer
cells that set them apart.
Wittke: I don’t think I ever felt more accepted as a younger individual, than I have in the
lab.
Bode: He’s just a regular member of our group.
Adler: When you’re in a research group, it is sort of like a family.
Wittke: I would definitely call it a family. I would consider all of these people my closest
friends.
Bode: Research Rookies is a program that was designed to identify promising freshmen when
they first come into NIU. It’s not just scientific research, its research in all areas.
Rachel Tripodi: Particularly with a program like Research Rookies, it allows students
to make connections with things that they are learning in the classroom and really makes
learning kind of jump off the page. It’s takes learning outside of a textbook and makes
it real and it applicable.
Borre: It captures the very best of our students and gives them an opportunity to use their
skills and their mind.
Tripodi: We are looking for a student who’s curious, who wants to know what the creation
of knowledge looks like their major or area of interest.
Bode: He is a poster person for this program because he’s been so successful and I think
he is growing into his role in the laboratory and looking to expand it.
Borre: If he chooses to, he can make a difference in the world.
Wittke: If I don’t do it, who else will?