I am so excited to be participating in the Kenan program.  I will be doing cancer research at NC State with Dr. David Muddiman and his team.  One of my passions in the classroom (and also one of my major concerns) is scientific literacy.  Many of our students (and people in society) do not understand what science is or how it works.  I hope that I can take my experiences doing research back to the classroom to illustrate scientific investigations and what the scientific process entails.  I also hope to inspire the next generation of innovative scientists.