{"id":40679,"date":"2012-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2012\/06\/26\/inbre-scholars-meet-nicole-mckenna\/"},"modified":"2012-06-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T05:00:00","slug":"inbre-scholars-meet-nicole-mckenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2012\/06\/26\/inbre-scholars-meet-nicole-mckenna\/","title":{"rendered":"INBRE Scholars &#8211; Meet Nicole Mckenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><TABLE border=\"0\" width=\"250\" cellspacing=\"10\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/NicoleMcKenna612.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"picture disc.\"><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:7pt;line-height:150%\">Nicole Mckenna<\/span><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE>Twenty-eight students from nine different undergraduate and community college programs have joined the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program this summer. <\/p>\n<p>The program was created to:<br \/>\n<UL><LI>Expose students to serious biomedical research;<br \/>\n<LI>Build a statewide biomedical research infrastructure between undergraduate and graduate institutions; and<br \/>\n<LI>Strengthen each undergraduate institution&#8217;s infrastructure and increase its capacity to conduct cutting-edge biomedical and behavioral research.<\/UL> <\/p>\n<p>Below, we get to know more about INBRE scholar Nicole Mckenna.<\/p>\n<p><HR><\/p>\n<p><UL><LI><B>Name:<\/B> Nicole Mckenna<br \/>\n<LI><B>Hometown:<\/B> Papillion<br \/>\n<LI><B>School:<\/B> Wayne State College<\/UL><\/p>\n<p>I had many health problems as a child and spent a lot of time in the hospital and at doctor&#8217;s offices. Seeing how much of an impact the doctors and nurses had on my life made me want to go into the same field so I could help other people like I had been helped.<\/p>\n<p>Science excites me because it is constantly changing. There are always new breakthroughs and changes in how medicine is practiced. I will pursue a career in science. I hope to provide something new to the medical world and open many doors for other researchers to investigate for years later.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to have programs like INBRE because it allows students to investigate careers before they have to pick one for the rest of their lives. 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