2005-2006 Undergraduate Fellow Biosketches

Sarah Dilley is a rising senior majoring in Psychology, minoring in French, and planning on taking the MCAT this summer. Sarah is the current president of her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, and is a member of the varsity track team. She is a founding member of Emory's chapter of Change for Change, a national charitable fundraising organization. She is interested in public health education and awareness and has enjoyed volunteering on the children's behavioral care unit of her local hospital in Indiana.

Jason Haensly is currently a double major in Chemistry and Music, although he plans to eventually drop the Music major for Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology. He is a trumpet player and a vocalist, and is thinking about creating a vocal jazz ensemble next fall. He finds research very interesting, and is currently working in two labs. The first is a biochem lab, where he uses directed evolution to try and isolate and modify a previously undiscovered enzyme from C. arabica, and the second is an electrophysiology/behavioral neuroscience lab at Yerkes, where he is performing some anatomical immunohistochemisty studies on the BLA and the BNST.

Jennifer Johnson is junior at Emory University who is majoring in Biology and minoring in Music. In addition to school, she spends much of her time working as an SAT tutor for high school students, serving as the Volunteer Director for the Fragile X Syndrome Clinic, practicing and performing with Emory's Javanese Gamelan Ensemble, and contributing to the Wesley Fellowship campus organization. In her free time, she enjoys spending time outdoors, visiting with friends, and playing board games.

Megan Kemp is a Biology major and Science, Culture, and Society minor. She currently works as a research assistant in a Physiology lab and as an undergraduate teaching assistant in the General Chemistry labs. In the near future, she will be a teaching assistant for the Human Physiology class, a content editor of the new Emory Undergraduate Research Journal, and a staff member of Emory’s science magazine Hybrid Vigor. While Megan is primarily interested in pursuing a career in Physiology or Stem Cell research, she is also interested in religion, science writing, teaching and changing the way science is taught to students. Megan is a strong advocate of hands-on learning, and hopes to incorporate this into her future career.

Yasamin Vojdani is a Biology major and Persian minor and, like Jordan Rose, likes to juggle...with a soccer ball. When she is not in the middle of an intramural soccer game or belly dancing at the SAAC, she likes to volunteer around campus with clubs like the Residence Hall Association, tour guiding on campus, and other events through the Muslim Student Association and Persian Club. She works in a biology lab to make some extra pocket money (or maybe just save up for medical school?), works for Kaplan, and also teaches the piano after being a student of eleven years. So far, while in college, she has earned a spot on the Dean's list, a role as an Orientation Leader next year, and a position as a TA for her biology professor.

Stephanie Whisnant is a pre-med Psychology major who has completed her Italian Studies minor and is currently pursuing the Science, Culture, and Society minor. She works in the Cardiology Department of the Emory Clinic as a student administrative assistant. In addition, she is the current facilities manager for her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, and is an active member of the Student Alumni Association. In her free time she enjoys volunteering with Volunteer Emory's service trip to Project Open Hand, a meal preparation center for victims of AIDS and the elderly.