Second year cell and molecular biology student Ella Brunsting designed her own co-op, ultimately placing her in Belgium at the GIGA Institute.

"I would say that my biggest achieve­ment at North­eastern was man­aging to bal­ance all of the demands on my time needed to meet the aca­d­emic and extracur­ric­ular goals I set for myself, while still man­aging to explore inter­ests unre­lated to these goals and to have fun."

"Mind­ful­ness helped me in ways I never imag­ined it could. It made me so much calmer, so much hap­pier. That per­sonal expe­ri­ence has made me want to pro­vide the same for others. When I’m a physi­cian and a researcher, I want it to be part of my approach."

“When Sophie Chaney packed up her bags and headed off to her co-op in Cape Town, South Africa, she anticipated working in the field for the South African National Biodiversity Institute. The biology major has done that, often collecting pollen samples from flowers in order to compare them to other samples captured in other areas. […]