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>> Megan Miller: My research here at Eastern involves me
going out into different field sites around the school like Fox
Ridge and collecting mushrooms to try to see what their
ecological role is.
Even though it was a super dry summer this year fall has been
really good for finding mushrooms because
it's been raining.
So we'll go out and we'll identify things and we'll go
back into the lab and try to culture them because some things
do function differently in culture than they do in the
environment so we kind of look at both aspects of that.
In the biology department we focus on the organism and a lot
of things have gone very molecular so that's one great
benefit of Eastern's biology department is that it is very
organismally based so that way when I go to grad school I'll
have a better understanding of what all is out there.
So that's a really important thing we do.
One of the project I'm doing right now Dr. Methven's lab is
actually a continuation of my project from my internship at
the USDA this summer.
The skills Dr. Methven has given me here have really helped me
before I got to my internship.
Now he's mentoring me through like the end part of my
internship so that's been really good.
You're in smaller classes which really allows you to get to know
the other students which allows you to make really good friends
and it gets you to know your professors which is also helpful
academically because the closer relationship you have with those
professors it kind of inspires you to learn more so that's been
one really great benefit.