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Consider Sarah Jusiewicz, now a sophomore. After becoming hooked as a teenager on such crime dramas as Dragnet and Diagnosis Murder, Jusiewicz knew she wanted to work in an FBI lab specializing in fingerprint analysis, ballistics and fiber comparison. So the New Jersey teenager applied to Appalachian, which offers a chemistry major with a forensic science concentration. The university's picturesque setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains didn't hurt its appeal...
...Jusiewicz was accepted but still worried about her preparation. Her high school didn't offer a chemistry lab. But her determination to pursue a career in science was bolstered by the book assigned to her Appalachian freshman class to read before the students showed up last year. Rodney Barker's And the Waters Turned to Blood traces the investigation by botanist JoAnn Burkholder of a mysterious microorganism linked to massive fish kills in North Carolina waters in the 1990s. Jusiewicz felt further inspired when Burkholder delivered the convocation address. "To see a woman who's got her doctorate and become...
...adviser steered Jusiewicz into a forensic science "learning community" of 11 students, all enrolled together in a freshman seminar and in chemistry and criminal-justice classes that included students from outside the group. Their seminar was far cozier than either the chemistry class of 50 students or the criminal-justice course (more than 30). It fostered new friendships, honed their study skills and brought in working professionals to familiarize them with the forensics field. It also served as a ready-made study group for the other two courses...
...chemistry professor, Dale Wheeler, invited the forensics group to dinner, which made Jusiewicz feel more comfortable about asking him questions after class. She could also attend sessions led three times a week by a senior chemistry major whose assignment was to reinforce the lectures. When she had trouble with a math course, she signed up for free one-on-one tutoring. The results: a B in chemistry and an A in math...
During orientation, kids are required to bunk on campus. That's optional for parents, but about half seize the opportunity to sample dorm life. Sarah's mom, Merry Jusiewicz, 49, arrived with concerns about sending her daughter so far from home but left reassured: "I got a real feeling of a genuinely caring faculty...
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