Judith Thorn
Associate Professor of Biology
2 East South Street
Galesburg, IL 61401-4999
E-mail: jthorn@knox.edu
Knox's pre-med advisor along with other Knox faculty and staff, will help guide your course selection, review for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), prepare medical school applications, and learn effective interviewing skills. Advisers and other faculty are responsible for writing the letters of recommendation. The nature of these relationships helps your advisers and mentors to make their recommendations distinctive, highly personalized evaluations instead of form letters from a committee.
Pre-Med Advisor
Judith Thorn
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 1997
Hannah Fidoten, a computer science and economics double-major, developed an Honors project that encourages local schoolchildren to pursue studies in STEM subjects -- science, technology, engineering, and math.
James Beard Award-winning author Paul Greenberg delivers the EquiKnox sustainability lecture centered on his best-welling book, Four Fish, and meets with Knox students to discuss his environmental research and writing. Related events include a sustainability fair and seafood dinner.
Guest speaker Joseph Gallian, a University of Minnesota-Duluth professor, explains to a Knox College audience how he deciphered the complicated method by which some states assigned driver's license numbers. The event was part of the MathTalks lecture series at Knox.
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