Naa: My Passion

Video: Research and Medicine

Video includes Naa speaking into the camera, interview with Professor Browne, still images of Naa at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania and of Naa walking and talking with a classmate on campus.

Audio from video

Naa:

“It really started I guess in 7th grade, when I went to science camp. And this is in middle school. And so it just got me thinking about science and experiments, and actually a lot of the things that I really like at Mount Holyoke are a lot of the experiments outdoors, and just a lot of lab work. And then I started volunteering in a hospital during the summers of high school, and that really got me thinking about more health care fields.”

Bertha Phillips Rodger Professor of Chemistry Shiela Browne:

“They’re at a moment that they can make great changes in their life. It’s where they really create the dreams that they have. What am I going to be in life? And you see this incredible transition from someone who is a student to someone who has entered a professional field. And one of the big things that creates that is internships.”

Naa:

“This past summer I did uterine fibroid research at Harvard Medical School. At the university the entire summer I screened tumors for a certain type of translocation, so where two chromosomes actually swapped places. So — that was my experience at Harvard. But the summer before I did research at the University of Pennsylvania. And the best part of that, I think that summer, basically it was my first summer doing like real research. Research at like the university medical school level. And it was great because my mentor was a Mount Holyoke alum, and it was just great, just being around her and hearing about her stories about Mount Holyoke, and she was really there, just like guiding me through every step of the way, just really learning about how to do research.”

Professor Browne:

“It’s one thing to take organic chemistry and go to organic chemistry lab, and it is just really an entirely different thing to be doing research that will then be published. And so a lot of the things I talk about with students is what do you want change, and how are you going to go about it, and how would you measure that that change had occurred?”

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