Franklin with Grambling’s Biology Department as well as Dr. However, I would like to give a special thank you to Dr. “I would like to thank everyone who made this internship possible. “The Biology Department is truly a family inside of our big family at Grambling State,” Pea said. She said the Biology Department at GSU helped her to line up the internship opportunity. “Overall, it really taught me that it’s OK to go off course sometimes and it is in the spontaneity where you might find something even better than you had imagined,” Pea explained. If there is one lesson she learned, it’s that it’s OK to be spontaneous in research. In the process, you might even find that you find nothing related to your hypothesis and that’s OK.” It’s trying a little bit of this and a little bit of that to see whether your hypothesis is true or not. “I had to learn that you can’t discover anything new if you do things “by the book”. “I thought that once I got there I would do experiments, find what I’m supposed to find and present that at the poster presentation but it was nothing like that,” she said. The internship was an eye-opening experience, Pea said. Her area of research was pathology – specifically exploring a major factor in atherosclerosis which is the underlying issue in cardiovascular disease. “In addition to helping me gauge whether a career in research was the right fit me, this opportunity allowed to me to connect with individuals that I truly look up to, can learn from, and help me in my journey.” “This opportunity was my first exposure to research, therefore this experience has been a huge factor in determining whether I want to pursue a career in research in addition to my pursuit of a career in medicine,” she said. – Aug– Meleah Pea, a junior biology major from Ponchatoula, Louisiana, recently completed an eight-week internship
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