MultiDisciplinary
Anterior Cruciate Ligaments
By Alexis Jenkins
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Alexis Jenkins definitely is very active from the start. Sports have always been her passion; growing up, you could always catch her outside at the softball field playing with her high school, tournament team, or family. This all was until she had an almost career-ending injury occur not just once but twice. Luckily, she could continue to play two years of college softball, but she always wondered why tearing your ACL, also known as your Anterior Cruciate Ligament, was such a big deal. Now years later, she is a Senior here at Millersville studying Sports Journalism. After graduation, she plans to work her way into the ESPN world to eventually become an ESPN Broadcast Journalist.
detection of target molecules using synthesized aptamer-based sensors
By simona gavrilovici,
maryssa brandt,
and lyman h. rickard
Simona Gavrilovici is a senior at Millersville University, graduating with a B.S. in Chemistry. She started this project because she was required to complete a semester of independent research. After she started, Simona realized she really enjoyed her analytical research on aptamers and wanted to continue her project. She is happy with how far her research has gone since the start of it back in Fall 2018, and she is making new discoveries with each day that her project continues. Simona’s goals for this project was to develop a biosensor using aptamers. In the future, she will continue learning about electrochemical spectroscopic methods and biosensors. She will carry with her newfound knowledge on these topics into graduate school which she will start attending in Fall 2020 at Northeastern University College of Science. That is where she will begin her work in the PhD in chemistry program that they offer there.
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Want to learn more about this presentation? Contact Simona at this email address to start a conversation.