A Biosensor for Screening Botanical Extracts for Binding to Drug Targets
Poster presentation at the Van Andel Institute undergraduate research conference, Grand Rapids, MI
Alma College’s nationally recognized Model United Nations program has won top honors for 16 consecutive years (1997–2012) — the longest active winning streak of any college or university in the nation. Alma College’s all-time 30 “outstanding delegation” awards are the most of any college or university in the 90-year history of the conference.
Rachel Burckhardt
Graduation: 2013
Major: Biology
Scientists have estimated 50 to 75 trillion cells make up the human boy, but Rachel Burckhardt ’13 can find even more reasons why biology is the right major for her.
The Waterford senior’s soft spot for the small things is anything but microscopic.
“There’s a lot of stuff going on that the celllar level that you don’t realize is happening, and I find it interesting to see how all the little workings of a cell make up a person,” she says.
