Corey Whitehead
Apoorva Ananth
Golda Grabarnik
Corey Whitehead
Email address: ctwllos@mail.umd.edu
Affiliation: Earth, Life, and Time
Title of Project: Cracking the Kinome
Description of Project: Corey established and created a database of experimentally determined kinase and substance.
What were the main benefits you received from doing the project?: He gained a lot of personal growth. He was able to put all of the knowledge that he gained through classes into practical use. And it was also his first scientific discovery!
What were the main pitfalls or obstacles during the development and/or undertaking of the project?: It was an extremely long project, making it extremely difficult to see all the way through.
Apoorva Ananth
Email address: aananth@umd.edu
Affiliation: Earth, Life, and Time
Title of Project: Stepping in the Shoes of a Physician
Description of Project: Apoorva's goal was to further her knowledge of medicine and learn how the body differs between three different age groups.
What were the main benefits you received from doing the project?: She obtained the opportunity to gain basic knowledge of medicine, medical terminology, how to prescribe basic drugs to patients, basic medical examinations, and more.
What were the main pitfalls or obstacles during the development and/or undertaking of the project?: One obstacle she had during the volunteering service was the difficulty of learning the names of all the different diseases.
Golda Grabarnik
Email address:ggrabarn@mail.umd.edu
Affiliation: Earth, Life, and Time
Title of Project:Helping Patients Get Back on Their Feet
Description of Project: Golda's goal of this project was to follow the footsteps of occupational and physical therapist.
What were the main benefits you received from doing the project?: She gained many benefits from this project including the realization of the difference another helping hand can make. With her help in the clinic, therapists were able to focus more on the patients and their treatments rather than wheel chairing them and keeping them company.
What were the main pitfalls or obstacles during the development and/or undertaking of the project?: There were some obstacles involved in this project such as difficulty in communication and lack of physical strength, which was necessary in the field.