What are you up to now?

Megan Woltz

REU '06

Mentors: Kristina Stinson, Kathleen Donohue

Project: Garlic mustard population demographics differ among forest habitats at the Harvard Forest LTER (abstract)

Hometown: Afton, NC

College and major: North Carolina State University, Environmental Sciences, Ecology Concentration, Class of '07

• What you miss most about the REU program: Sitting around Fisher House cracking jokes with other REUs and Tim's excellent cooking.
• What you miss least about the REU program: Poison ivy and mosquitoes that bite through carharts!
• What about the REU program has stuck with you: The conviction that I really love to do research and want to some day run my own lab.
• Have you stayed in touch with other REU students?: Yes, my old HF roommate is now one of my best friends. We visit each other once or twice a year, even though we live hundreds of miles apart, and talk on the phone pretty regularly.
• Whether your REU experience supported or changed your career plans: Supported - the experience reinforced my desire to pursue scientific research as a career.
• What you're up to now: I'm in my 3rd year in a PhD program in Entomology at Michigan State University.