Reflecting on the Journey
“When I was younger, I didn’t really understand [cancer], so I thought, why not investigate it and see what’s happening? I was confused by the science of it and that’s when I decided I wanted to cure cancer, when I was 10. Being a woman and black and in science is a rare combination. I want to be the researcher behind making more effective drugs. You think how cancer spreads and how it’s a form of cell regulation, so what [we can] fix or change is how our medications are affecting healthy tissue and how they’re targeting abnormal cells.”
Amari Tankard CC'17
"For any approach we tried, it was necessary to create, troubleshoot and standardize our own methods from scratch, analogous to creating a unique game that demands strict adherence to a particular set of rules. Though challenging, the newfound discomfort of this method was a unique opportunity for an undergraduate, one that encouraged me to become comfortable asking open-ended questions, to stick with inferences that were uncertain in outcome and to be at relative ease being unable to find immediate confirmation of my process in a book."
Junghoon Kim CC'16
“Over the past year, I’ve been considered the [K=1 Project’s] team captain, so I got a lot of experience managing a large project and a lot of people. There are a ton of moving parts – we’re about to get on a boat in the middle of uninhabited islands, and if we forget to bring anything, there’s no CVS we can go to. So it’s about thinking of every detail. It’s a really unique experience, and hopefully the work that we’re doing actually affects the lives of people."
Danielle Crosswell CC'17