Hi! I'm Raegan.
Growing up I always loved to read and write, but as I got older those interests found themselves on a back burner as I began focusing academically on more STEM subjects. This probably had something to do with the fact that my high school only offered advanced courses in those fields and I’ve always been a bit of an overachiever. So when I got to college, naturally, I continued taking those classes, chemistry, biology, physics, math, etc. and I decided to major in Biochemistry after taking organic chemistry and actually enjoying it (maybe I just like suffering). While I loved, and love, learning about these topics, the idea of working in a lab day in and day out and trying to figure out the answer to a single problem for an entire career wasn’t something that I was excited about (I also wasn’t interested in medical school). It wasn’t until taking Fundamentals of Biochemistry my second year of college that I started to learn there could be more to getting a STEM degree than just working in a lab or going to medical school.
Written Pieces
Movie Review: Chasing Coral (2017)
April 23, 2021
"The 2017 Netflix Original Documentary Chasing Coral... Having been named the official selection for many film festivals of 2017, Sundance, Boulder, Hotdocs, and SFFILM to name a few, and having won a 2017 Emmy, it’s obvious this film made a mark on the film community; but has it affected the environmental movement it’s centered around?"
Research in HIV Therapy Inspires a Replacement of Heparin
November 23, 2019
"Research that initially began with studying inhibitors of the HIV virus led the development of a replacement for Heparin, a blood-thinner administered after heart surgery, to reduce post-op complications."
Research from Bruce Sullenger “RNA Center for Biomedicine”
Video Project
This is a video project done for Biology 305 at the University of Michigan. It was made independently and describes the process of transcription termination via the torpedo model and how this process connects to polyadenylation.