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Rabia Hameed ’15 Glen Ellyn, Illinois Biology I see Elmhurst as a very academically driven college. It is a place where everyone strives to do their best. At the same time, everyone also works together to help each other out. That healthy competition makes you want to do better. You hear people talking about their cool experiences—they’re shadowing a doctor or doing research at Loyola—and you think maybe you should start doing more. Professor Stacey Raimondi invited me to work with her on breast cancer research over the summer. She found a novel pathway in cancer, and now her research is based on trying to show how that pathway is important. So we’re studying cancer cell cultures, trying to find diΩerences in the cells and figure out what those diΩerences mean. Biology majors at Elmhurst have the opportunity to do more than students at big universities do. We write grant proposals and research papers, and we’re required to do research. Not only that, we’re doing something for the greater good. For example, a lot of people are aΩected by cancer every day, and we’re working to fight it.