INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AT TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

 

 

Donna Cooper is a student in the Biology department at Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C. She is dedicated to obtaining education and mentoring from her professors at Trinity Washington University. In her undergraduate coursework, she has taken the following science courses: General Biology, General Chemistry, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, Introductory Forensic Science, Biology of Women, Fundamentals of Chemistry II, and Introductory Genetics.

 

She is currently taking a Directed Research course (BIOL 497) taught by Dr. Moitra where she is acquiring skills such as lab safety, lab inventory, solution preparation, equipment operation, pipetting, making agarose gels, running the agarose gels, performing Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR),  writing and reading protocols, and other experimental methods that will benefit her in a laboratory job or internship. Outside of the classroom and laboratory she enjoys practicing painting water color portraits and drawings of still-life.