-: Penn State was a part of my graduate school career.
I did my undergraduate work at Grove City College
in Western Pennsylvania
which didn't really have all that strong
of a research program at the time.
Penn State, like coming to the college of medicine
definitely shaped me as a scientist,
helped to develop me,
to think critically and to be able to design experiments
and ask important questions
so that's all from Penn State, where I learned that.
I think it was really important to have, you know,
strong coursework
but just to have very strong mentors
in the laboratory itself,
people that were on my thesis committee,
I think if you don't have strong mentors that you trust
to guide you,
you can kind of flail around
and not have a lot of direction.
You have to definitely develop close relationships
with strong mentors.