SPOTLIGHT: Shengqian Ma, PhD '08:"I learned quite a lot for my writing skills at Miami. When I had first arrived as an international student, I needed to take some English courses, especially my first semester, when I took a writing class."
SPOTLIGHT: Biology and Public Health major Emilio Bloch '20travelled to The Gambia to study public health issues. "My career focus has always just been trying to help people in the way that best suits me, in whatever I am good at, and in the largest scale — which always changes!"
For Health Careers Week 2019, 8 senior premedical studentsoffered various bits of advice about preparing for med school, such as: "Get involved in research before your junior year." "Study abroad." "Attend office hours and build relationships with your professors."
SPOTLIGHT: Gwen Etter-Lewis (English): "Learning is a two-way, interactive process that involves reflection, collaboration, and active engagement on the part of both students and teachers."
Carrie Tyler (Geology) received a major grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for "CAREER: Identifying Ecosystem Properties Promoting Stability and Resistance: Modeling Late Ordovician Paleocommunity Dynamics and Functioning Across the Richmondian Invasion."
