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Student Profiles

Sara Koehnke

Sara Koehnke

First Year

I wanted something that can get me above all the other people who want to get into med school.
Sarah Kurian

Sarah Kurian

Junior

Going to Spain changed a lot of things for me. I want to fully enjoy my undergraduate years.
Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson

Junior

I find ways to make supercomputers run more efficiently.
Tashi Ongmo

Tashi Ongmo

First Year

I love anything creative... art, drawing, sketching and inspired writing.
Keegan Siebken

Keegan Siebken

Junior

Physics is concrete and theater is freer. If I don't have both, then I'm not satisfied.
Kate Latshaw

Kate Latshaw

First Year

I broke the single-season home run record in my first year.
Adam Kent

Adam Kent

Senior

In ten years, I plan on living the life. But, I won't have a desk job. No suit and tie.
Maurice McDavid

Maurice McDavid

Senior

Being here has challenged everything I believe in -- in every facet of my life.
Derek LaRosa

Derek LaRosa

Senior

I'm researching how to bring environmental studies curriculum to elementary schools.
Fayne Lawson

Fayne Lawson

Junior

It drove me crazy to see my bunk mates leave for a fire and tell me to hold down the fort and study for my test.
Erin Navolio

Erin Navolio

Senior

My professors emphasize the importance of being true to the field that you're teaching.
Danny Gonshorek

Danny Gonshorek

Junior

I'm really fascinated about functionality and art and making my own things.
Sarah Bigus

Sarah Bigus

Junior

I was always interested in how the brain and body work together. I found a way to keep them both in my life.
Sean Carmichael

Sean Carmichael

Senior

The future is for composers and the past is for theorists.
Amanda Chavero

Amanda Chavero

Sophomore

I am interested in how a place (a church, a college campus) is defined by the behaviors of the people.
Michael Dooley

Michael Dooley

Senior

Every class I teach will have technology integrated into its lesson plans.
Sam Flanders

Sam Flanders

Senior

I explored how employers and employees provide different assessments of whether a job is considered dangerous.
Will Gallmeyer

Will Gallmeyer

Sophomore

I got wet and muddy exploring the underground Illinois Caverns.
Luke Karner

Luke Karner

Senior

I think patience is one thing, but being persistent with your patience is something that is the test.
Brittany Leggans

Brittany Leggans

Senior

I researched organic and conventional agriculture, and how they relate to food security.
Krystle Liggins

Krystle Liggins

Sophomore

At Knox, you can be a neuroscience major and also really like religious studies.
Clint Moore

Clint Moore

Junior

The experience of playing two sports is something I would never trade.
Michelle Nordi

Michelle Nordi

Senior

To re-establish the value of food we must be aware of the lines from food producer to consumer.
Pam Schuller

Pam Schuller

Senior

I will miss having a random idea from left field and having so many faculty say 'Okay, how do we make this happen?'
Margaret Spiegel

Margaret Spiegel

Kewanee, Illinois

I have always been curious about how people lived before all of the modern conveniences we are fortunate enough to have.
Polly Young

Polly Young

Senior

I studied how gustatory tastes work with memories to identify events in our lives.
Tomomi Sunayama

Tomomi Sunayama

Senior

I want to study theoretical astrophysics and the big bang theory.
Erin Warford

Erin Warford

Junior

I collected data showing a site where a group of Roman villas existed in Britain.
Sarah West

Sarah West

Senior

I used a Wii Fit videogame machine to study the impact of force on the articular cartilage of the knee.
Eva Westley

Eva Westley

Sophomore

My research gave me a much greater understanding of the culture and the workings of the public health system in Nicaragua.
Jessica Wise

Jessica Wise

Senior

I was really interested in the peace and conflict aspect of the Ireland program.
Andy Arnold

Andy Arnold

Senior

I like studying who we are and how we work. Research is so collaborative, so hands on.
Devin Day

Devin Day

Senior

In Yemen I had the opportunity to see how the people live and see how it is similar and different to life here.
Anne Fagerburg

Anne Fagerburg

Senior

Everything I came across studying La Malince was interesting and I worked with a lot of historians.
David Ferris

David Ferris

Senior

Ten years from now I could be doing something completely different. I could be a professor or a farmer. I'm leaving it wide open.
Maurice Harris

Maurice Harris

Senior

The best thing about activities that go on at Knox is that almost all of them are student-initiated.
Leah Heister

Leah Heister

Senior

Off the field I've learned how to be a better person, how to be a leader.
Amanda Look

Amanda Look

Senior

My internship taught me what life is like outside the college classroom.
Brad Middleton

Brad Middleton

Senior

There's no better way to learn about the government than seeing it firsthand.
Mark Munoz

Mark Munoz

Senior

Going to Shanghai was both a cultural experience and a scientific experience for me.
Stephanie O'Brien

Stephanie O'Brien

Senior

Knox Habitat is a great lesson in community development. What better way to lead than by example?
Andrew Prendergast

Andrew Prendergast

Senior

I like to tell people that for my honors I cloned a frog gene and I sequenced it and I contributed this piece of information.
Mike Prentice

Mike Prentice

Senior

I looked at selfhood, emotions of freedom, and nostalgia and death -- all those fun things.
Stefen Showers

Stefen Showers

Senior

Fiction is untruth ultimately, so it is useless to the real world. That is the best quality of it.
Amanda Smith

Amanda Smith

Senior

Whether its field work, lab work, or the bio medical end of it, I like it all.
Chris Snell

Chris Snell

Senior

I invented an instrument to aid orthopedic surgeons performing knee replacement surgery.
Brendan Todt

Brendan Todt

Senior

I've learned a lot from being a coach. Sometimes you've got to be hard-nosed.
Graham Troyer-Joy

Graham Troyer-Joy

Junior

The youth activist movement is not just dreadlocks and hemp. The peace movement has spread to all types of people.
Chelsea Bagot

Chelsea Bagot

Senior

I think the environmental movement can be stronger if ecologists and toxicologists talk to each other about the issues that each is facing.
Mary Batterman

Mary Batterman

Senior

I joined the Study Abroad program to explore community development in Thailand.
Whitney Bey

Whitney Bey

Senior

I know that I will be in the social service world. That is what really calls to me.
Kourtney Cone

Kourtney Cone

Senior

My research project was a great learning experience and has helped me shape my interests for graduate school.
Allyson Cooper

Allyson Cooper

Senior

The last four years have gone by so quickly. I will definitely miss playing collegiate golf.
Scott Doughty

Scott Doughty

Senior

It is exciting to think that when I leave Knox, there is something I have done that I left behind.
Donovan Griffith

Donovan Griffith

Senior

Knox taught me not just how to multitask, but how to find what I want and how to do it.
Steve Kim

Steve Kim

Senior

I feel like this is my lab. I know now that I belong in a lab setting.
Jason Harper

Jason Harper

Sophomore

I kept in touch with my high school friends and helped bring them to Knox.
Ryan Meier

Ryan Meier

Sophomore

I want to go to grad school and study forensic science, something like the guys on 'CSI.'
Elisabeth Brewer

Elisabeth Brewer

Junior

Knox has really taught me to look at others' perspectives and see that education is truly a privilege.