{"id":9259,"date":"2017-10-20T18:20:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T22:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=9259"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:49:38","slug":"biology-alumnae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/biology-alumnae\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Alumnae Present at Reflections and Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/programs\/biology\/\">Biology Department<\/a> welcomed alumnae Melba Sales-Griffin &#8217;12 and Emily Cornwell &#8217;07 to campus today for the department&#8217;s annual Reflections and Connections event as a part of Homecoming 2017. The event, established in honor of Professor Emeritus Paul Sotherland, shares the career highlights and happenings of K alumni as they reflect on their K experiences and beyond.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9260\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9260\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Emily-Cornwell-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Kalamazoo College alumna Emily Cornwell Presents at Reflections and Connections\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Emily-Cornwell-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Emily-Cornwell-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Emily-Cornwell-600x390.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Emily-Cornwell-462x300.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Emily-Cornwell.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kalamazoo College alumna Emily Cornwell &#8217;07 told students Friday, Oct. 20, at Reflections and Connections that a series of seemingly inconsequential events in their education might someday create their career paths.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9261\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9261\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Melba-Sales-Griffin-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Biology Professor Binney Girdler introduces Melba Sales-Griffin\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Melba-Sales-Griffin-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Melba-Sales-Griffin-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Melba-Sales-Griffin-600x434.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Melba-Sales-Griffin-415x300.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Melba-Sales-Griffin.jpg 1019w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biology Professor Binney Girdler introduces Melba Sales-Griffin &#8217;12 Friday, Oct. 20, at Reflections and Connections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sales-Griffin, a Chicago native, majored in biology and minored in art. She studied abroad in Ecuador for six months as a junior. She also held a leadership role on the Student Activities Committee and was a senior resident assistant. After college, she learned HTML, CSS and UX\/UI at the Starter League in Chicago before becoming its office manager. She also worked at the University of Chicago Survey Lab administering phone surveys in English and Spanish. Now, Sales-Griffin is a service delivery coordinator at MATTER, a health care technology incubator that supports startups in the health care space.<\/p>\n<p>Cornwell spent a year in Australia as a Fulbright Scholar researching the physiology of osmotolerance in a native mollusk and earning an honors degree from Deakin University. After returning from Australia, she started a dual Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine and Ph.D. program at Cornell University, where she focused on the infection dynamics of an invasive fish virus in the Great Lakes. She later completed additional training to become a certified aquatic veterinarian.<\/p>\n<p>After serving as an emergency small animal and exotic species veterinarian in Virginia, she became a general practice small animal and aquatic veterinarian in Maryland. At work, she enjoys educating pet owners, solving issues in internal medicine and training veterinary technicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College&#8217;s Biology Department welcomed alumnae Melba Sales-Griffin &#8217;12 and Emily Cornwell &#8217;07 to campus today for the department&#8217;s annual Reflections and Connections event as a part of Homecoming 2017. 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The event, established in honor of Professor Emeritus Paul Sotherland, shares the career highlights and happenings of K alumni as they reflect on their K experiences and beyond.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9260\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9260\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Emily-Cornwell-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Kalamazoo College alumna Emily Cornwell Presents at Reflections and Connections\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kalamazoo College alumna Emily Cornwell &#8217;07 told students Friday, Oct. 20, at Reflections and Connections that a series of seemingly inconsequential events in their education might someday create their career paths.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9261\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9261\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Melba-Sales-Griffin-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Biology Professor Binney Girdler introduces Melba Sales-Griffin\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biology Professor Binney Girdler introduces Melba Sales-Griffin &#8217;12 Friday, Oct. 20, at Reflections and Connections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sales-Griffin, a Chicago native, majored in biology and minored in art. She studied abroad in Ecuador for six months as a junior. She also held a leadership role on the Student Activities Committee and was a senior resident assistant. After college, she learned HTML, CSS and UX\/UI at the Starter League in Chicago before becoming its office manager. She also worked at the University of Chicago Survey Lab administering phone surveys in English and Spanish. Now, Sales-Griffin is a service delivery coordinator at MATTER, a health care technology incubator that supports startups in the health care space.<\/p>\n<p>Cornwell spent a year in Australia as a Fulbright Scholar researching the physiology of osmotolerance in a native mollusk and earning an honors degree from Deakin University. After returning from Australia, she started a dual Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine and Ph.D. program at Cornell University, where she focused on the infection dynamics of an invasive fish virus in the Great Lakes. She later completed additional training to become a certified aquatic veterinarian.<\/p>\n<p>After serving as an emergency small animal and exotic species veterinarian in Virginia, she became a general practice small animal and aquatic veterinarian in Maryland. 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