An experience of a lifetime.
RARE, just the beginningI conducted my own research project in the Peruvian Amazon the summer after my freshman year. This place is where my love for research blossomed.
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RARE is a competitive opportunity at Radford University that offers a chance for undergraduates to formulate, conduct, and present original research. My research revolved around how the human body reacts to such a drastically new environment. In 2017 and 2018, I focused my project on RARE groups; in 2019, I broadened this research to study abroad programs that traveled to Chile and London.
This experience played a massive role in my life and where I am today. Not only did I realize I loved research, but I also loved working in the field. These two new-found things about myself, along with my undergraduate degrees in anthropological sciences and biology, led me to go to graduate school in bioarchaeology. Now I get to travel to Belize each summer to help staff undergraduate field schools, as well as share my love for research.
This experience played a massive role in my life and where I am today. Not only did I realize I loved research, but I also loved working in the field. These two new-found things about myself, along with my undergraduate degrees in anthropological sciences and biology, led me to go to graduate school in bioarchaeology. Now I get to travel to Belize each summer to help staff undergraduate field schools, as well as share my love for research.