INBRE scholars on campus – meet Mallory McGinnis

Twenty-six students from 10 different undergraduate and community college programs have joined the Institutional Development Award Program (IDeA) Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE)/ Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) program.

Mallory McGinnis

Established in 2001, the BRIN program was created to expose students to serious biomedical research, build a statewide biomedical research infrastructure between undergraduate and graduate institutions and to strengthen each undergraduate institution’s infrastructure and increase its capacity to conduct cutting-edge biomedical and behavioral research.

Today we meet Mallory McGinnis, a junior at Creighton University majoring in biology.

Who are your heroes?

My hero is my mother. This is far from an original response, but without her I wouldn’t be who and where I am today.

What are your career goals?

My career goals consist of graduate school, however, an area of particular interest is undecided.

How did you become interested in science?

I became interested in science my sophomore year in high school while taking an anatomy and physiology course.

What do you hope the INBRE program will do for you?

I hope that the INBRE program will introduce me to several different avenues of research and techniques.