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Submitted by Lisa B. on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 11:01pm.

My name is Lisa and I am a junior biology major at Bryn Mawr. I always had a curiosity in biology, but a major in biology was not always my first choice. Because most books I read as a child had a historical theme, I dreamed of becoming a history professor. Then my opinion changed in the summer of 2003 while dissecting a shark in my neuroscience and neurology course at Yale University. At first I was disgusted at the handful of overachieving high school students tearing apart the shark’s flesh, but then my mentality suddenly changed. When they tore open the stomach to find a baby crab I became fascinated with the dissection. My summer at Yale, combined with other biology related experiences, drew me to major in biology and enroll in neurobiology and behavior at BMC.

During the course of the semester I would like to explore these three topics:

(1) What have studies shown about a possible association between artificial sweeteners and cancer?

(2) How was phrenology used to determine an individual's psychological attributes?

(3) What are some experimental intervention research methods used to understand the human brain? 

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