{"id":2463,"date":"2016-02-19T10:38:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T10:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2025-05-09T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:21:35","slug":"morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/19\/morgan","title":{"rendered":"足彩app哪个是正规的 finds UW Bothell a place to start again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/morgan.jpg\" alt=\"morgan\" class=\"wp-image-28157\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\tBy Douglas Esser<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\tHer Southern accent hints how far Amanda Morgan has traveled to become a student at University of Washington Bothell. But, it\u2019s even further than the physical distance from Georgia and Florida where she grew up and lived. In her engaging voice, the 36-year-old mother of three tells her story of becoming pregnant at the age of 17 and dropping out of high school. She matter-of-factly describes an abusive marriage that left her with the message, \u201cYou\u2019re nothing, you\u2019ll never amount to anything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\tNow, thanks mainly to her own initiative, and with the help of UW Bothell professors (and wetland songbirds), she hopes to eventually earn a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. She wants to work in the field of neuroendocrinology, with the goal of understanding and treating neurobiological brain disorders such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\tMorgan\u2019s life turned around after her marriage ended and she realized she had to \u201credevelop myself as a person.\u201d She believed that she was \u201cgreater than I had been told.\u201d Morgan earned a GED and had aspirations for college, although it was not an expectation for her. Her parents were not college-educated. \u201cCollege was not driven in our home,\u201d she said. Morgan started taking college classes after her divorce but found it impossible while working two jobs. \u201cIt was just excruciating. I had to kind of let that go and focus on my children because they were very young at that time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\tWhen she had a chance she resumed college classes in psychology with the idea of helping dementia patients and their families. Another turning point came when she met her fianc\u00e9 Brian, whose job brought them to the Seattle area. She planned to finish her psychology degree online. With his encouragement she began looking at universities for graduate school. She literally ran into UW Bothell while jogging on the North Creek Trail, training for a half-marathon. \u201cWe literally went, \u2018What is this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\tStill another turning point occurred when she felt she could go extend her interest in psychology into neurobiology and behavior. Morgan decided to shelve her nearly completed psychology degree and work on a degree that could put her into a doctorate program, \u201csurrendering to my own passion, a greater passion and studying more of the mechanistic side of the brain.\u201d She decided to study the neurobiology instead of neuropsychology of dementia. \u201cInstead of being the person that possibly helped the family of that person, I wanted to be the solution of the problem and find ways I could better understand the effects of how degenerative disorders come to be,\u201d Morgan said, \u201cand be part of that greater cause.\u201d Brian encouraged her to go for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\tUW Bothell was the right place to start over, building the prerequisites in chemistry, biology, calculus \u201cI just felt it right away that University of Washington Bothell was for me especially with my age and the smaller campus,\u201d Morgan said. \u201cI was more interested in being able to come to school, attend my lectures and focus solely on that subject matter.\u201d She also was pleased to get an early start on research. \u201cThis is the cool thing about University of Washington Bothell. I can do graduate-level work in research as an undergraduate,\u201d she said. Morgan became a student of Douglas Wacker, assistant professor of animal behavior in the School of STEM biological sciences division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\t\u201cI constantly hear her chatting with other students in little study nooks around Discovery Hall, as well as with other undergraduate researchers in my lab,\u201d Wacker said. \u201cShe may not realize it and would certainly be too modest to admit it if she did, but she\u2019s acting as a mentor to these (slightly) younger students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\tHis work involves birds on the campus wetlands, including the notorious crows, although Morgan is not part of the crow team. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty exciting,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re doing some cool stuff.\u201d Winner of the 2016 Founder\u2019s Fellow Research Scholarship, Morgan attributes her success to mentors such as Wacker, Director of Undergraduate Research Charlotte Rasmussen and Kim Gunnerson, who taught Morgan her first class at UW Bothell. \u201cShe literally took me under her wing, and she was instrumental in me gaining the confidence that I needed, in particular that I belong at University of Washington Bothell and that I could do this,\u201d Morgan said. \u201cShe\u2019s more than just a professor. She\u2019s just amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\tMorgan is on track to graduate in the spring of 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. She\u2019s applying for the UW doctorate program and hopes to earn her Ph.D. in four or five years. Now she\u2019s a student with a 19-year-old son, who lives in Florida. \u201cSo I have a child that\u2019s as old as those I\u2019m going to school with,\u201d she laughs. Morgan also has two daughters living with her in Woodinville, 14 and 17, with the older girl now making her own college plans. Amanda and Brian are making their own plans to marry after she graduates. \u201cIt\u2019s a closure and opening to a whole new journey,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\tA journey that aims toward a career as a neuroendocrinologist, working for a better understanding and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. \u201cI want to know more. Why is this happening? What can I do to prevent this?\u201d she said. Morgan shares her life story because of the possibility it might help motivate others. \u201cIf you had told me at 17 I would be looking at getting a Ph.D. in neurobiology I would have thought, you\u2019re crazy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/student-amanda-discovery-front-img-6740.jpg\" alt=\"足彩app哪个是正规的-Amanda-Discovery-Front-IMG-6740.JPG\" class=\"wp-image-28159\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tAmanda Morgan was a high-school dropout who fled an abusive marriage. But has re-invented herself, thanks to her own initiative and the help of UW Bothell professors. Morgan expects to graduate in 2017 with a bachelor&#039;s degree in biology. 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