Student Profiles

Derek LaRosa

Senior

I'm researching how to bring environmental studies curriculum to elementary schools.

Margaret Spiegel

Kewanee, Illinois

I have always been curious about how people lived before all of the modern conveniences we are fortunate enough to have.

Keegan Siebken

Junior

Physics is concrete and theater is freer. If I don't have both, then I'm not satisfied.

Kate Latshaw

First Year

I broke the single-season home run record in my first year.

Jason Harper

Sophomore

I kept in touch with my high school friends and helped bring them to Knox.

Clint Moore

Junior

The experience of playing two sports is something I would never trade.

Leah Heister

Senior

Off the field I've learned how to be a better person, how to be a leader.

Ryan Meier

Sophomore

I want to go to grad school and study forensic science, something like the guys on 'CSI.'

Brendan Todt

Senior

I've learned a lot from being a coach. Sometimes you've got to be hard-nosed.

Graham Troyer-Joy

Junior

The youth activist movement is not just dreadlocks and hemp. The peace movement has spread to all types of people.

Amanda Smith

Senior

Whether its field work, lab work, or the bio medical end of it, I like it all.

Krystle Liggins

Sophomore

At Knox, you can be a neuroscience major and also really like religious studies.

Mary Batterman

Senior

I joined the Study Abroad program to explore community development in Thailand.

Chelsea Bagot

Senior

I think the environmental movement can be stronger if ecologists and toxicologists talk to each other about the issues that each is facing.

Jake Kuhnline

Alum

When I got to Knox, I found a love for politics.

Sean Carmichael

Senior

The future is for composers and the past is for theorists.

Sarah West

Senior

I used a Wii Fit videogame machine to study the impact of force on the articular cartilage of the knee.

Andrew Prendergast

Senior

I like to tell people that for my honors I cloned a frog gene and I sequenced it and I contributed this piece of information.

Adam Kent

Senior

In ten years, I plan on living the life. But, I won't have a desk job. No suit and tie.

Michael Dooley

Senior

Every class I teach will have technology integrated into its lesson plans.

Danny Gonshorek

Junior

I'm really fascinated about functionality and art and making my own things and being self sufficient.

Brittany Leggans

Senior

I researched organic and conventional agriculture, and how they relate to food security.

Fayne Lawson

Junior

It drove me crazy to see my bunk mates leave for a fire and tell me to hold down the fort and study for my test.

Pam Schuller

Senior

I will miss having a random idea from left field and having so many faculty say 'Okay, how do we make this happen?'

Tashi Ongmo

First Year

I love anything creative... art, drawing, sketching and inspired writing.

Chris Snell

Senior

I invented an instrument to aid orthopedic surgeons performing knee replacement surgery.

Sara Koehnke

First Year

I wanted something that can get me above all the other people who want to get into med school.

Luke Karner

Senior

I think patience is one thing, but being persistent with your patience is something that is the test.

Jessica Wise

Senior

I was really interested in the peace and conflict aspect of the Ireland program.

Tomomi Sunayama

Senior

I want to study theoretical astrophysics and the big bang theory.

Sam Flanders

Senior

I explored how employers and employees provide different assessments of whether a job is considered dangerous.

Maurice Harris

Senior

The best thing about activities that go on at Knox is that almost all of them are student-initiated.

Eva Westley

Sophomore

My research gave me a much greater understanding of the culture and the workings of the public health system in Nicaragua.

Chris Johnson

Junior

I find ways to make supercomputers run more efficiently.

Stefen Showers

Senior

Fiction is untruth ultimately, so it is useless to the real world. That is the best quality of it.

Mike Prentice

Senior

I looked at selfhood, emotions of freedom, and nostalgia and death -- all those fun things.

Anne Fagerburg

Senior

Everything I came across studying La Malince was interesting and I worked with a lot of historians.

David Ferris

Senior

Ten years from now I could be doing something completely different. I could be a professor or a farmer. I'm leaving it wide open.

Stephanie O'Brien

Senior

Knox Habitat is a great lesson in community development. What better way to lead than by example?

Andy Arnold

Senior

I like studying who we are and how we work. Research is so collaborative, so hands on.

Sarah Bigus

Junior

I was always interested in how the brain and body work together. I found a way to keep them both in my life.

Brad Middleton

Senior

There's no better way to learn about the government than seeing it firsthand.

Erin Warford

Junior

I collected data showing a site where a group of Roman villas existed in Britain.

Devin Day

Senior

In Yemen I had the opportunity to see how the people live and see how it is similar and different to life here.

Mark Munoz

Senior

Going to Shanghai was both a cultural experience and a scientific experience for me.

Amanda Chavero

Sophomore

I am interested in how a place (a church, a college campus) is defined by the behaviors of the people.

Whitney Bey

Senior

I know that I will be in the social service world. That is what really calls to me.

Kourtney Cone

Senior

My research project was a great learning experience and has helped me shape my interests for graduate school.

Elisabeth Brewer

Junior

Knox has really taught me to look at others' perspectives and see that education is truly a privilege.