KOKOMO, Ind. – Maybe you can think of nothing better than dedicating your life to studying organisms. Perhaps you’re kind of obsessed with relationships between living things and the environment around them.
If you’re interested in finding a fulfilling degree in the biomedical field — whether in research labs, for pharmaceutical companies, or as field biologists — or you know that you’re on your way to a graduate or professional program, a biology degree from Indiana University Kokomo is the degree for you!
Education is KEY at Indiana University Kokomo.
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Biology Recruitment Video Transcript – Spring 2022
Fun pop-rock music plays as the video opens up with footage of Hunt Hall in the fall with an overlay of the IU Kokomo logo and the text “Biology” appearing on screen. The voice of Biology major Katie Fincher is heard until she appears on screen in a microbiology lab on campus. Throughout the video, extra footage of students studying in labs and doing fieldwork are shown on screen.
00:00:00:03 - 00:00:07:02
Katie Fincher
“I want to be a part of something that changes the world. I think everyone does, but it really seems possible with CRISPR that you can do that.”
00:00:07:02 - 00:00:20:07
Marcus Amoah appears on camera in the same microbiology classroom.
“I kind of realized that there was more to biology than just like photosynthesis, I feel like, which is a thing I just remember from high school. We have immunology. Getting to learn about animal physiology. Relating that to humans.”
00:00:20:07 - 00:00:32:17
Katie Fincher appears on screen again.
“I like the question “Why?” And I like the answers that science can bring to that. I think it's really interesting to learn the reason behind things and science is, that's what it does. It’s the reason behind everything.”
00:00:32:17 - 00:00:51:05
Mike Finkler appears in the same microbiology lab for his interview.
“Biology is fundamentally the... the study of life. You know, there's this remarkable process that is occurring in so many different things on our planet. Being a biology major simply doesn't mean that you're going to be camped into a laboratory surrounded by equipment and chemicals at all times.”
00:00:51:08 - 00:01:02:11
Mike Finkler
“Some of it involves laboratory work. Some of it involves fieldwork where you can... will actually be outside looking at living organisms in their natural environment.”
00:01:02:11 - 00:01:17:15
Katie Fincher speaks again.
“I do really enjoy the plant side of genetic biology, the agricultural uses of CRISPR. You can increase food supply with resisting disease and just more production. I think that... that can solve world hunger.”
00:01:17:15 - 00:01:29:19
Marcus Amoah speaks again.
“I want to be a pediatrician, because you know, a pediatrician gets to have the same patient from like since birth till they're 18. So, you get to kind of have an impact on their lives. And that's kind of what draws me to that.’
00:01:29:19 - 00:01:45:21
Mike Finkler speaks again.
“Many people go directly into things such as quality assurance or chemical treatments, you know, getting careers within, say, departments of natural resources or working for a different city and county types of organizations directly with a bachelor's degree.”
00:01:46:02 - 00:01:54:18
Marcus Amoah speaks again.
“These classes just expose you to a large amount of science, especially if you want to get into science. You know you want to get to research, again med school.”
00:01:54:18 - 00:02:25:09
Mike Finkler speaks again.
“A biology degree, more than anything else, teaches you how to think. It teaches you how to examine information, process that information, come up with reasonable objective conclusions based upon that information, and then enables you to apply that type of information correctly to solving your variety of different problems. And those are skills that really apply to any profession that you might go into.”
As the video ends, the IU Kokomo logo appears on screen again along with the website iuk dot edu slash sciences.
