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| Success Stories -- Yolanda Jones |
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Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) 1999 - 2000 B.S. University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) First Year Graduate Student in Physiology, Howard University |
| I first interned at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) during the summer of 1999. I had just received a MARC U* Award at UMES and was embarking upon my senior year. During that summer, I worked in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology under the guidance of Edward Spangler. I worked on cutting edge technology, involving a drug that NIA had patented for Alzheimer's disease. My first summer internship in a lab was a very rewarding experience. I liked the flexibility that research scientists have. I was able to come in at a relaxed hour but worked diligently to get the results I wanted. I enjoyed my summer so much that I returned to the lab in the winter for a few weeks. |
| Not only was my lab experience good but the social atmosphere was fun as well. I made some new friends with whom I am currently keeping in touch. The summer students at NIA are really friendly and easy to get along with. About once a week, we would have a summer student social at one of the students' apartments. At these socials, we would talk about work and the lab but more importantly, we would relax and just enjoy one another's company. |
| In the summer of 2000, I returned to NIA simply because my experience the summer before was so great. I had just graduated undergraduate school and was preparing to begin Graduate school at Howard University in the fall. I would be entering a Ph.D. program in Physiology, something that being both a MARC U* scholar and NIA intern had prepared me for. I choose the Laboratory of Neurosciences because I wanted to learn something new. The experience in that laboratory was more closely related to what I would be studying in graduate school. I learned new, and even perfected, some laboratory techniques that I knew I would be using at Howard. The National Institute on Aging has been a very influential part in my future. It has given me experiences that some only can dream about and given me the chance to work with some of the world's greatest scientists. |
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