Numbers aside, this incoming class arrives with a wide range of experiences and backgrounds.
Meet Megan Schinker
Megan Schinker got a jump on her classmates; while still in high school she seized on a research opportunity in Kent State’s geology lab.
Megan Schinker of Stow got quite a jump on her peers by helping to identify an extinct, 300-million-year-old, tiny and unknown crustacean specimen. While still in high school, she made the most out of her research internship by working in Kent State’s geology lab with Rodney Feldmann, Ph.D.
Schinker jumped right in and began comparing the cyclid specimen to anything she could find in literature and online sources in the lab. They even requested samples and pictures of lost samples from all over the world and examined them closely, cataloging their physical and structural attributes.