{"id":1320,"date":"2020-01-22T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:05:01","slug":"practical-learning-powers-success-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2020\/practical-learning-powers-success-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Learning Powers Success in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Practical Learning Powers Success in Science\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h2 id=\"creating-an-impressive-research-toolkit\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Creating an Impressive Research Toolkit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/practical-learning-powers-success-1200w-4-240x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8633\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Neuroscience graduate Elyn Rowe pursued and found the right opportunities at Carleton to create an impressive research toolkit that launched her into a PhD program right after her double major undergrad years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awarded the Chancellor\u2019s Medal at spring Convocation for her outstanding academic achievements, Rowe began her research experience at Carleton through a summer research internship in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/people\/shawn-hayley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Shawn Hayley\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;lab. \u201cI worked with some amazing graduate students investigating potential therapeutics for Parkinson\u2019s disease, and they became some of my greatest mentors and friends. I continued in this lab through another internal research opportunity at Carleton\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/discoverycentre\/funding-opportunities\/icureus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I-CUREUS<\/a>\u2014and learned a lot about overcoming obstacles in research.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, Rowe received funding through the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to work in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/kyle-biggar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Kyle Biggar\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;lab, where she stayed until completing her undergraduate degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about Rowe&#8217;s story on the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/practical-learning-science-success\/?utm_source=Homepage&amp;utm_medium=Banner\">Carleton Newsroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating an Impressive Research Toolkit Neuroscience graduate Elyn Rowe pursued and found the right opportunities at Carleton to create an impressive research toolkit that launched her into a PhD program right after her double major undergrad years. Awarded the Chancellor\u2019s Medal at spring Convocation for her outstanding academic achievements, Rowe began her research experience at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}