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Undergraduate

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Quinn

McKinney

Quinn McKinney started in International Business
at Carleton but found it wasn’t the right program for
her. While considering a new direction, she joined
a group called Student Energy, which focuses on HEALTH SCIENCES
empowering the next generation of energy leaders
to accelerate the world’s transition to a sustainable Salar Farokhi
energy future.
That spurred her to switch to Environmental
Science. “I attended as many lab tours as possible,
because I was super curious as to what kind of Boroujeni
research goes on at Carleton,” she says.
On one tour, she met Biology Prof. Owen
Rowland, who is collaborating with Prof. Sheryl For Salar Farokhi Boroujeni, studying Health Sciences at Carleton
Boyle of the Azrieli School of Architecture has offered opportunities to learn both inside and outside the lab.
and Urbanism to make building materials from While doing a first-year research assignment, he became
nanocellulose fibers derived from hemp or recycled intrigued by the biological underpinnings of diabetes. He received
cardboard. Intrigued, she applied for (and received) a Dean’s Summer Research Internship and a Natural Sciences and
a Dean’s Summer Research Internship (DSRI) to Engineering Research Council internship to continue his research in
join the project in 2019. “It has been an amazing the Carleton lab of Biology Prof. Jennifer Bruin.
experience,” she says. “This DSRI opportunity has “They have been the highlight of my undergraduate education,”
definitely opened my eyes to lab research.” says Farokhi of the internships, which gave him skills and
Also last summer, she attended Student Energy’s knowledge he shares with fellow students in weekly study groups.
international summit in London, U.K., where “Being at Carleton, I have had so many opportunities, like mentoring
participants discussed topics such as the energy and internships, which my friends at other schools have not.”
industry and how to create a more sustainable and Off campus, Farokhi volunteers with the Multiple Sclerosis
inclusive energy future. “It was really inspiring to be Society and at the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital. That
in a room with like-minded and passionate students experience should stand him in good stead when he pursues his
who all want to help the world make the transition next goal: applying to medical school.
that’s already under way.”

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