Number of undergrads in research rising
When Andrea Jacobs ’08 started volunteering at the Connecticut Mental Health Center last summer, she was initially apprehensive about her lack of previous research experience. But once there, she quickly learned the ropes.
Jacobs learned to inject test mice with chemicals, slice up pieces of their brains for examination and analyze the pieces for protein content — all to test a single chemical’s role in human depression.
Jacobs said she became intrigued by mental health research after two family members began suffering from mental illnesses — but she only took an active...
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