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Mallory Gentry \u201928<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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On most fall mornings, Mallory Gentry \u201928 and Simran Magnan \u201929 can be found at swim practice or lifting weights. This summer, however, they\u2019re in a chemistry lab at Kalamazoo College, working alongside Daniela Arias-Rotondo, the Roger F. and Harriet G. Varney Endowed Chair in Natural Science, on research into manganese-based coordination complexes that could one day help improve solar energy technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gentry, a swimmer<\/a> from Pendleton, Indiana, and Magnan, a soccer<\/a> player from Northville, Michigan, are both members of Arias-Rotondo\u2019s lab, where they\u2019re working to synthesize new compounds that absorb visible light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Arias-Rotondo, the goal is to make new manganese compounds that might prove useful for capturing sunlight\u2014compounds no one has made before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magnan, who was on crutches recovering from surgery, started her summer away from the lab bench, instead digging through research articles to help chart the lab\u2019s next steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m more so on the computer looking at research articles, trying to figure out next steps and what different types of ligands that we could use for these new molecules,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both students say the extended, uninterrupted stretch of summer research, compared with the single weekly session they typically manage during the school year, has let them dig deeper into their projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt gives me the time to actually do more things and be able to look into it,\u201d Gentry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Magnan, the structure of summer research keeps her connected to chemistry through the offseason. \u201cIt keeps me engaged and focused to slide right back into chemistry in the fall,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both students found their way to Arias-Rotondo\u2019s lab well before this summer. She was the first chemistry instructor at K for both, and both say their working relationship grew out of office hours conversations that started as early as freshman year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI really enjoy working with Dr. DAR,\u201d Gentry said, referring to how students affectionately address Arias-Rotondo. \u201cShe\u2019s very good at explaining things and open to questions. She\u2019s very easy to talk to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magnan agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe way that she teaches really works well for me,\u201d Magnan said. \u201cShe gives us a couple first steps and then has us try it on our own. Later, we\u2019ll come back to her and ask questions because she\u2019s always available for questions, without giving away how to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Arias-Rotondo, having student-athletes in her lab isn\u2019t a scheduling accommodation, it\u2019s an asset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHaving student-athletes in the lab is awesome because they know how to fail and recover from failure, which is so important in research,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a research success rate she estimates at around 20 percent, resilience matters, Arias-Rotondo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey already have that resilience, that willingness to just pick yourself back up and try something again,\u201d she said, adding that athletes also tend to bring strong time-management skills to the lab. \u201cThey already have some incredible qualities that they\u2019ve learned through sports that can translate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both students see the connection clearly in their own experience. Magnan described a similar overlap between soccer and chemistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cComing at it from a soccer angle versus coming at it from a chemistry angle just provides more opportunities and strategies for me to approach problems,\u201d she said. \u201cThat skill building is probably what I’m going to remember more than the chemistry or the soccer combined.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arias-Rotondo said she thinks carefully about lab chemistry of a different kind: how her students work together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think the lab is more like the swim team, where in most cases they have their own events, but they are still rooting for each other,\u201d she said. \u201cA win for one of them is a win for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She praised both students\u2019 work ethic and problem-solving under pressure, noting that when experiments don\u2019t go as planned, they think about their next step and how something can work the next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both students say K\u2019s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry<\/a>, and its emphasis on undergraduate research, played a role in their decision to enroll at K. Their advice to fellow students weighing whether to pursue summer research: do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt gives you time to fully focus on what you’re doing and learn, and also gives you a community in the science,\u201d Gentry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magnan echoed the sentiment: \u201cYou get to go so much more in depth and get much more individualized learning. There\u2019s just so much growth possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Magnan, the summer has also offered an unexpected benefit beyond the science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeing here has been so much better mentally for me than being at home, just on the couch,\u201d she said of recovering from her surgery in the lab rather than away from campus. “It really gives my brain something else to focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Simran Magnan ’29<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\"Mallory
Mallory Gentry ’28<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Simran Magnan ’29<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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