Those panel discussions that admissions holds in the
Nott every few days this time of year are intended to spark the interest
of accepted candidates.
But it was the little sister of one prospect who seemed
to be the most captivated after one panel last Saturday.
“I visited Union College with my brother … and
there was a student who described a project that he was doing with the
frog that could freeze in the winter and then basically come back to life
in the spring,” wrote Emily Dibbell, an eighth grader from
Bainbridge, N.Y.” I am interested in that topic and we have a science
fair in May and I was hoping that he would help me out a little and start
me on my research.”
“I'm impressed with your initiative!” wrote
back Kelly Herrington of admissions, who set up the event. “I've
never received an e-mail from an eighth grader before. If you ever apply
to Union, you will be given extra brownie points.”
Herrington put the budding biologist in touch with Mani
Daneshman, a biology major in the Leadership in Medicine program who had
described the research project he is doing with Prof. Barbara Pytel.