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Students take advantage of research opportunities
Wilkes University
When Erica Mabry
began her sum- Award. Working with the with nonprofits helping Photo courtesy of Wilkes University SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION OF THE MORNING CALL
mer research, she eye, he was able to study women and children.
never imagined being a age-related macular degen- Wilkes junior biology major Dillon Davis studied age-related macular degeneration in England over the
published scientist before eration. Davis’ work will be “Wilkes has opened me summer.
her junior year. published in a scientific up in a variety of ways. If
journal during his junior you told me I would be in
As part of the Wilkes year. Tanzania, I would have
University culture of men- laughed,” Maskowski says.
torship, an integral part of a Melanie Maskowski, a “This experience has
student’s educational expe- senior criminology and opened me up to see things
rience occurs through facul- sociology dual major, also from a global perspective.”
ty research opportunities completed her research
students are afforded shortly abroad, spending over two For Mabry, a junior
after stepping onto campus. weeks in Tanzania working pharmacy student, working
on treatments for breast
“It was invaluable. I was An integral part of cancer and prostate cancer
getting an experience I has built bridges for her that
wouldn’t get anywhere a student’s will last a lifetime.
else,” says Dillon Davis, a
biology major who spent experience occurs “The personal connec-
two months of his summer tion is something that is
studying abroad in England through research special to Wilkes and spe-
after receiving the Dr. Jo- cial to the research.”
seph Donald Stephens, opportunities.
D.D.S., Global Scholars To learn more about the
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