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| − | Marcie Jaffee [[CC]]' | + | Marcie Jaffee [[CC]]'07 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry. She graduated ''cum laude'' and with [[Biology]] Department Honors for her senior thesis on her research performed in the lab of Daniel Kalderon. She spent her freshman year perched on a ledge, contemplating the sun and the stars and planning to be a [[Philosophy]] major. Her Eureka moment which caused her to switch to the Sciences came the summer after her freshman year, and she therefore sweat and labored to finish her Biochemistry major requirements in three years. |
Throughout college she worked at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and for the Office of the Chaplain. She worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant for General Chemistry Laboratory and worked as a tutor for Introductory Biology. Her sophomore summer was spent playing with ferromagnetic nanowires in the Reich lab at Johns Hopkins University. She participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at Columbia where she spent a summer and the following two semesters working in the lab of Dan Kalderon. There she sent many unwilling fruit flies to their mass grave at the bottom of an ethanol bottle, but also found her calling as a researcher in science. | Throughout college she worked at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and for the Office of the Chaplain. She worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant for General Chemistry Laboratory and worked as a tutor for Introductory Biology. Her sophomore summer was spent playing with ferromagnetic nanowires in the Reich lab at Johns Hopkins University. She participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at Columbia where she spent a summer and the following two semesters working in the lab of Dan Kalderon. There she sent many unwilling fruit flies to their mass grave at the bottom of an ethanol bottle, but also found her calling as a researcher in science. | ||
Marcie grew up on a small dairy farm in northern Vermont. She currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts and attends Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a graduate student in the Imperiali lab. | Marcie grew up on a small dairy farm in northern Vermont. She currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts and attends Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a graduate student in the Imperiali lab. | ||
Revision as of 19:33, 17 March 2009
Marcie Jaffee CC'07 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry. She graduated cum laude and with Biology Department Honors for her senior thesis on her research performed in the lab of Daniel Kalderon. She spent her freshman year perched on a ledge, contemplating the sun and the stars and planning to be a Philosophy major. Her Eureka moment which caused her to switch to the Sciences came the summer after her freshman year, and she therefore sweat and labored to finish her Biochemistry major requirements in three years.
Throughout college she worked at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and for the Office of the Chaplain. She worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant for General Chemistry Laboratory and worked as a tutor for Introductory Biology. Her sophomore summer was spent playing with ferromagnetic nanowires in the Reich lab at Johns Hopkins University. She participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at Columbia where she spent a summer and the following two semesters working in the lab of Dan Kalderon. There she sent many unwilling fruit flies to their mass grave at the bottom of an ethanol bottle, but also found her calling as a researcher in science.
Marcie grew up on a small dairy farm in northern Vermont. She currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts and attends Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a graduate student in the Imperiali lab.
